Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: pinctrl: qcom,pmic-mpp: clean up example

[Johan Hovold]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 01:51:06PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:56 AM Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 08:43:20AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:

> > > This is fine, but I prefer these MFDs have 1 complete example rather
> > > than piecemeal examples for each child device.
> >
> > Yeah, this is not ideal. The closest thing we've got are the examples
> > in:
> >
> >         Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/qcom,spmi-pmic.yaml
> >
> > Are you suggesting eventually dropping the examples from the child node
> > bindings and adding (several) complete examples in the parent one?
> 
> Yes, but if the child nodes are truly reused across multiple PMICs
> then, it is probably a worthwhile exception. There's not a great deal
> of reuse on most MFDs.

Yes, they are indeed reused by multiple PMICs in this case.
 
> > I guess there would need to be more than one if you want to cover all
> > the various child nodes with real examples.
> 
> We don't want examples to be exhaustive permutations of every
> possibility either.

Not every possible permutation but I guess we'd want coverage of all the
various child nodes still (i.e. the child node examples that would have
been removed).

Johan