linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v6 1/3] gpio: dt-bindings: add wd,mbl-gpio bindings

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Date:	Wed, 4 May 2016 07:32:02 -0500
From:	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>
Cc:	"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>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Álvaro Fernández <noltari@...il.com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@...l.ru>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v6 1/3] gpio: dt-bindings: add wd,mbl-gpio bindings

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Christian Lamparter
<chunkeey@...glemail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 03, 2016 09:22:10 PM Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>> > This patch adds the device tree bindings for the Western Digital's
>> > MyBook Live memory-mapped GPIO controllers.
>> >
>> > The gpios will be supported by gpio-mmio code of the
>> > GPIO generic library.
>> >
>> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/wd,mbl-gpio.txt
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
>> > +Bindings for the Western Digital's MyBook Live memory-mapped GPIO controllers.
>>
>> Are these really product level GPIOs rather than some SOC's GPIOs
>> (APM?)?
>>
> Ah, that's a good point.
>
> In a nutshell: The APM82181 SoC has two proper/normal GPIO controllers
> which have a dt-binding and a kernel driver ready to go.
> However Western Digital went with their own GPIO controller for
> the MyBook Live [7].

Okay, just making sure. It's a little strange to have external (to an
SOC) memory mapped GPIOs is why I asked.

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>

Rob

P.S. By v6, you should drop RFC.