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

From: Quentin Schulz
Date: Thu Aug 16 2018 - 10:25:20 EST


Hi Alexandre,

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 02:41:35PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> 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.
>

And what about the use case I'm facing? I've got child nodes defined in
it but with a later patch (but they actually haven't made it to the
DT binding documentation, so that's for the next version of the patch
series).

OK, for removing simple-mfd from CPU chip regs documentation.

Thanks,
Quentin

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