linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] dt-bindings: ti-lmu: Modify dt bindings for the LM3633

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Message-ID: <20181024092328.GD24997@amd>
Date:   Wed, 24 Oct 2018 11:23:28 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>
Cc:     robh+dt@...nel.org, jacek.anaszewski@...il.com,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, lee.jones@...aro.org, tony@...mide.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] dt-bindings: ti-lmu: Modify dt bindings for the
 LM3633

On Tue 2018-10-23 12:06:21, Dan Murphy wrote:
> The LM3633 is a single function LED driver. The single function LED
> driver needs to reside in the LED directory as a dedicated LED driver
> and not as a MFD device.  The device does have common brightness and ramp
> features and those can be accomodated by a TI LMU framework.
> 
> The LM3633 dt binding needs to be moved from the ti-lmu.txt and a dedicated
> LED dt binding needs to be added.  The new LM3633 LED dt binding will then
> reside in the Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds directory and follow the
> current LED and general bindings guidelines.

What?

>  .../devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-lm3633.txt  | 102 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/ti-lmu.txt        |  48 ---------
>  2 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-lm3633.txt

> index 920f910be4e9..573e88578d3d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/ti-lmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/ti-lmu.txt
> @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ TI LMU driver supports lighting devices below.
>    LM3532       Backlight
>    LM3631       Backlight and regulator
>    LM3632       Backlight and regulator
> -  LM3633       Backlight, LED and fault monitor
>    LM3695       Backlight

Are you seriously proposing to take one binding and split it into 6
copy&pasted ones?

That's not the way we do development. NAK.

We don't want to have copy & pasted code. We also don't want to have
copy & pasted bindings. Nor changelogs, for that matter.

Thank you,
								Pavel
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