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

[Lee Jones]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, 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.

Can't you represent these as properties?

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Lee Jones
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