Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: usb: gpio-sbu-mux: Add OnSemi NB7VPQ904M mux

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:12:28PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> The OnSemi NB7VPQ904M Type-C DP altmode redriver provides SBU signals
> that can be used in with the gpio-sbu-mux driver. Document it.
> 
> Note that the -mux suffix is there to indicate that the gpio-sbu-mux
> driver interacts with the mux part of this otherwise quite sophisticated
> chip, leaving the "onnn,nb7vpq904m" compatible free for when a proper
> driver taking care of all of the chip's capabilities is introduced.

You should define a proper and complete binding. If you want to bind the 
gpio-sbu-mux driver to it now until you have a proper driver then that's 
fine. When you have such a driver, then you drop the compatible from the 
gpio-sbu-mux driver.

Note that having the fallback "gpio-sbu-mux" is somewhat problematic 
because the kernel has no mechanism to ensure you bind the most specific 
driver. For that to happen, it would have to support (automatically) 
unbinding one driver and binding to the more specific driver since one 
driver could be built-in and the other a module.

Rob