Re: [PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: mfd: Convert pm8xxx bindings to yaml

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 9:37 PM Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed 07 Apr 10:37 CDT 2021, skakit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Hi Bjorn,
> >
> > On 2021-03-11 22:33, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > On Thu 11 Mar 01:29 CST 2021, satya priya wrote:
> [..]
> > > > +patternProperties:
> > > > +  "rtc@[0-9a-f]+$":
> > >
> > > Can we somehow link this to individual binding docs instead of listing
> > > all the possible functions here?
> > >
> >
> > you mean we should split this into two:
> > qcom-pm8xxx.yaml and qcom-pm8xxx-rtc.yaml
> > Please correct me if wrong.
> >
>
> Right, I'm worried that it will be quite hard to maintain this document
> once we start adding all the various pmic blocks to it. So if we somehow
> can maintain a series of qcom-pm8xxx-<func>.yaml and just ref them into
> the main PMIC definition.
>
> @Rob, can you give us some guidance on how to structure this binding,
> with the various PMICs described will have some defined subset of a
> larger set of hardware blocks that's often shared between versions?

How you suggest is good. The only other thing is just 1 complete
example rather than a bunch of <func> fragments.

Rob