Re: [PATCH net-next 02/10] dt-bindings: net: ocelot: remove hsio from the list of register address spaces

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 14/08/2018 08:49:53+0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> Understood but it's an intermediate patch. Later (patch 8), the SerDes
> muxing "controller" is added as a child to this node. There most likely
> will be some others in the future (temperature sensor for example).
> 
> Furthermore, there's already a simple-mfd without children in this file:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/mscc.txt#L19
> 
> How should we handle this case?
> 

There were child nodes in previous version of the binding. You can
remove simple-mfd now. The useful registers that are not used by any
drivers are gpr and chipid.


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