Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] dt-bindings: pinctrl: mvebu: Document bindings for AC5

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Mar 23 2022 - 14:34:48 EST


On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 01:27:48AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > I think it can. I vaguely remember seeing conditional clauses based on
> > compatible strings in other yaml bindings.
> >
> > I started a new binding document because I expected adding significant
> > additions to the existing .txt files would be rejected. If I get some
> > cycles I could look at converting the existing docs from txt to yaml.
> >
> > I'm not sure that there will be much in the way of a common
> > mvebu-pinctrl.yaml as you'd end up repeating most of the common stuff to
> > make things conditional anyway.
>
> We should wait for Rob to comment. But is suspect you are right, there
> will not be much savings.

It's always a judgement call of amount of if/then schema vs. duplicating
the common parts. If it's the function/pin parts that vary, then that's
probably best as separate schema for each case. Otherwise, I'm not sure
without seeing something.

Rob