linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] dt-bindings: Add pinctrl bindings for mt65xx/mt81xx.

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdYRrs2=gNM1XGSh1cSo5Pvx6iNLt4HjL6gdTqGPWYSRDw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:53:51 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Hongzhou Yang <hongzhou.yang@...iatek.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	"Joe.C" <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>,
	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
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	Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>,
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	huang eddie <eddie.huang@...iatek.com>, dandan.he@...iatek.com,
	alan.cheng@...iatek.com, toby.liu@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] dt-bindings: Add pinctrl bindings for mt65xx/mt81xx.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:05:22AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> > You often talk about ambiguities. Could you give an example what
>> > ambiguities you mean?
>>
>> What happened was this pins = ; arguments were sometimes
>> strings and sometimes integers, that becomes strange to handle
>> in code, ambiguous.
>
> I see. I like naming it 'pinmux' because that's what it is: pins and
> mux settings. A plain 'pinno' suggests that it contains only pin mubers,
> without mux setting. How about 'pin-no-mux'? We also could add an
> explicit "pins-are-numbered" property instead of distinguishing this
> by property names.

I kind of like this "pins-are-numbered" thing.

The other property for the pin, whether pinmux or pin-no-mux or
pin-num-and-mux etc is no such big deal, as long as it's
consistent and documented with the generic bindings.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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