linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: Add generic ssbi and spmi GPIO/MPP bindings

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:53:34 -0800
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@...sol.com>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: Add generic ssbi and spmi GPIO/MPP
 bindings

On 11/19, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 05:00:26PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > The drivers don't really need to know which PMIC they're for, so
> > make a generic binding for them. This alleviates us from updating
> > the drivers every time a new PMIC comes out. It's still
> > recommended that we update the binding with new PMIC models and
> > always specify the specific model for the MPPs and gpios before
> > the generic compatible string in devicetree, but this at least
> > cuts down on adding more and more compatible strings to the
> > drivers until we actually need them.
> > 
> > Cc: <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
> > Cc: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@...sol.com>
> > Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> > ---
> 
> Seems okay to me. I assume you are going to update all the dts files?

Yep, I'll send out patches to do that.

-- 
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/