linux-kernel - Re: Applied "dt-bindings: mfd: atmel-usart: add DMA bindings for USART in SPI mode" to the spi tree

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Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 09:04:54 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>,
        Radu Pirea <radu_nicolae.pirea@....ro>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Applied "dt-bindings: mfd: atmel-usart: add DMA bindings for
 USART in SPI mode" to the spi tree

Hi Mark,

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 7:05 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:51:05AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> > > ---
> > >  .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-usart.txt   | 20 ++++++++++++++-----
>
> > Interesting!
>
> For some reason the bindings for the SPI function got put in the MFD
> directory, dunno why.

Because this is a block that can do either SPI or USART, hence MFD?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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