RE: [PATCH v2 5/5] dt-bindings: aspeed-lpc: Remove LPC partitioning

[ChiaWei Wang]

Hi Andrew,

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dt-bindings: aspeed-lpc: Remove LPC partitioning
> 
> Hi Chiawei,
> 
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, at 13:14, ChiaWei Wang wrote:
> > Hi Andrew & Rob,
> >
> > Do you have any suggestion on this patch?
> 
> Rob hasn't responded, but I think it will be easier to get an Ack out of him if we
> do a v2 of the binding so we're not breaking backwards-compatibility with the
> current definition. Concretely:
> 
> - compatible:   One of:
>                 "aspeed,ast2400-lpc", "simple-mfd"
>                 "aspeed,ast2500-lpc", "simple-mfd"
> 
> Becomes something like:
> 
> - compatible:   One of:
>                 "aspeed,ast2400-lpc-v2", "simple-mfd"
>                 "aspeed,ast2500-lpc-v2", "simple-mfd"
> 
> We can convert the in-tree devicetrees, immediately drop support for the
> current binding in the drivers, and _only_ support v2 of the binding going
> forward. That way your patches stay largely the same, the binding isn't
> hamstrung as it is currently, and we're not trying to maintain code to support
> the current binding definition - but we're also not pretending that old
> devicetrees will work with newer kernels that only support the new binding
> definition (which is the problem with your current patch series).
> 
> How does that sound?
Sounds good. The v2 binding string should be a notification to sync both the new device tree and the new drivers.
I will prepare a v3 patch with this change and the commit reordering suggested.

Thanks,
Chiawei

> 
> As to how to implement this, I think we'll need to add some
> of_device_is_compatible() checks in the relevant drivers to make sure that
> they're using the new LPC binding, such as in
> drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed-g5.c before we fetch the regmap on line
> 2657.
> 
> Sorry that this is dragging out a bit (and for the mess I made).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew