Re: [PATCH v6 1/8] dt-bindings: pinctrl: mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl: Pull pinctrl node changes from MT6795 document

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Oct 14 2024 - 14:58:19 EST


On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 3:09 AM Yassine Oudjana
<yassine.oudjana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/10/2024 7:56 pm, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 03:03:46PM +0300, Yassine Oudjana wrote:
> >> From: Yassine Oudjana <y.oudjana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> mediatek,pinctrl-mt6795.yaml has different node name patterns which match
> >> bindings of other MediaTek pin controllers, ref for pinmux-node.yaml which
> >> has a description of the pinmux property, as well as some additional
> >> descriptions for some pin configuration properties. Pull those changes
> >> into mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml and adjust the example DTS to match in
> >> preparation to combine the MT6795 document into it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yassine Oudjana <y.oudjana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> .../pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml | 38 ++++++++++++++-----
> >> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml
> >> index 3bbc00df5548d..352a88d7b135e 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml
> >> @@ -111,12 +111,12 @@ allOf:
> >> - "#interrupt-cells"
> >>
> >> patternProperties:
> >> - '-[0-9]*$':
> >> + '-pins$':
> >
> > Worst case, this could be an ABI break. Best case, it's churn for
> > mt6779. Is it worth unifying?
>
> It's better than keeping different patterns, isn't it? We wouldn't have
> ended up here if they were made as one in the beginning as it was ought
> to be considering how similar the hardware is. It's easier to change now
> since nothing is using it yet.

I can only assume there are users unless you tell me otherwise (in the
commit msg).

Rob