Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] dt-bindings: iio: introduce trigger providers, consumers

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 05:51:14PM +0100, Fabrice Gasnier wrote:
> Document iio provider and consumer bindings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt       | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt
> index 68d6f8c..01765e9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt
> @@ -95,3 +95,41 @@ vdd channel is connected to output 0 of the &ref device.
>  		io-channels = <&adc 10>, <&adc 11>;
>  		io-channel-names = "adc1", "adc2";
>  	};
> +
> +==IIO trigger providers==
> +Sources of IIO triggers can be represented by any node in the device
> +tree. Those nodes are designated as IIO trigger providers. IIO trigger
> +consumer uses a phandle and an IIO trigger specifier to connect to an
> +IIO trigger provider.
> +An IIO trigger specifier is an array of one or more cells identifying
> +the IIO trigger output on a device. The length of an IIO trigger
> +specifier is defined by the value of a #io-trigger-cells property in
> +the IIO trigger provider node.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +#io-trigger-cells:
> +		Number of cells in an IIO trigger specifier; Typically
> +		0 for nodes with a simple IIO trigger output.
> +
> +Example:
> +	trig0: interrupt-trigger0 {
> +		#io-trigger-cells = <0>;
> +		compatible = "interrupt-trigger";
> +		interrupts = <11 0>;
> +		interrupt-parent = <&gpioa>;
> +	}
> +
> +==IIO trigger consumers==
> +Required properties:
> +- io-triggers:	List of phandle representing the IIO trigger specifier.
> +
> +Optional properties:
> +- io-trigger-names :
> +		List of IIO trigger name strings that matches elements
> +		in 'io-triggers' list property.
> +
> +Example:
> +	some_trigger_consumer {
> +		io-triggers = <&trig0>;
> +		io-trigger-names = "mytrig";
> +	}

I have some reservations about this. We could just as easily add the 
interrupt directly to the consumer node and use "trigger" for a standard 
interrupt name. So the question is whether this extra level of 
indirection is needed? 

Rob