Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: mockup: Allow probing from device tree

From: Vincent Whitchurch
Date: Wed Oct 28 2020 - 17:52:41 EST


On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:43:22PM +0100, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:00 AM Vincent Whitchurch
> <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Allow the mockup driver to be probed via the device tree without any
> > module parameters, allowing it to be used to configure and test higher
> > level drivers like the leds-gpio driver and corresponding userspace
> > before actual hardware is available.
>
> You have to officially announce a DT binding for that.

Rob Herring has earlier said that was not required for this driver. As
I mentioned a little further down in the email you are replying to:

| Drop DT binding document, since Rob Herring was OK with not documenting
| this:
| https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/5baa1ae6.1c69fb81.847f2.3ab1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/