Re: [PATCH 5/7] add bindings for stm32 IIO timer drivers

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 11/22/2016 06:01 PM, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> [snip]
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer5"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer6"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer7"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer8"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer9"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer10"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer11"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer12"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer13"
>>> +     "st,stm32-iio-timer14"
>>
>> We can't do this. This is a binding for a driver, not for the hardware.
>>
> 
> Unfortunately each instance for the hardware IP have little
> differences like which triggers they could accept or size of the
> counter register,
> and I doesn't have value inside the hardware to distinguish them so
> the only way I found is to use compatible.

But IIO is not a piece of hardware, its a software framework in the Linux
kernel.