linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] arm: dts: genmai: Add ethernet pin group

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Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 15:48:55 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Chris Brandt <Chris.Brandt@...esas.com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@...ndi.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] arm: dts: genmai: Add ethernet pin group

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Chris Brandt <Chris.Brandt@...esas.com> wrote:
> On Friday, May 05, 2017, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> > This is the part of the whole "DT is for hardware description only" that
>> doesn't really make sense to me.
>>
>> OK yeah we do hardware description AND configuration.
>>
>> And we never do interpreted languages.
>>
>> And then there is a bunch of grayzone things. For example we have a
>> linux,input binding for connecting keypresses to certain Linux input codes.
>> That is really grayzone, but very useful.
>
> Ah....
>
>         compatible = "linux,grayzone";
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'll stop ranting now.
> Of course, I'll still probably screw it up again on a future patch somehow...

For this driver I remarked in some other thread that we may
end up with some

"renesas,bidirectional"

or so. But yeah, it's kinda grayzone too.

Yours,
Linus Walleij