Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] includes: dt-bindings: Add STM32F429 pinctrl DT bindings

[Maxime Coquelin]

2015-11-17 12:00 GMT+01:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Maxime Coquelin
> <mcoquelin.stm32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thinking again at it, I persist to believe have the defines makes it
>> easier to use.
>> With auto-completion, it makes it faster and less error prone to
>> select the right
>> alternate function without parsing the datasheet.
>
> Auto-completion ... should we design our source code to
> fit certain editors?
No, you are right.
But even without auto-completion, it is easier to have the values pre-computed.
And Mediatek has the defines, so it is better to do the same for STM32
for consistency.

>> But as these defines are not actually used on driver side, maybe I
>> could just move
>> them to the dts directory?
>
> No strong opinion there. include/dt-bindings is part of the bindings
> documentation actually so I guess it goes there.
Ok.

Thanks,
Maxime
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