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Message-ID: <CAL_Jsq+ZhoW9xM_7-7CcCm2RKRbMRzmXD-oEMfoVkvcaAFxGug@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:57:04 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-clk <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>, od@...c.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 03/13] dt-bindings: Add doc for the Ingenic TCU drivers

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 1:13 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> Le ven. 24 mai 2019 à 22:21, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> a écrit :
> > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 04:51:31PM +0200, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> >>  Add documentation about how to properly use the Ingenic TCU
> >>  (Timer/Counter Unit) drivers from devicetree.
> >>
> >>  Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
> >>  ---
> >>
> >>  Notes:
> >>      v4: New patch in this series. Corresponds to V2 patches 3-4-5
> >> with
> >>       added content.
> >>
> >>      v5: - Edited PWM/watchdog DT bindings documentation to point to
> >> the new
> >>         document.
> >>       - Moved main document to
> >>         Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/ingenic,tcu.txt
> >>       - Updated documentation to reflect the new devicetree bindings.
> >>
> >>      v6: - Removed PWM/watchdog documentation files as asked by
> >> upstream
> >>       - Removed doc about properties that should be implicit
> >>       - Removed doc about ingenic,timer-channel /
> >>         ingenic,clocksource-channel as they are gone
> >>       - Fix WDT clock name in the binding doc
> >>       - Fix lengths of register areas in watchdog/pwm nodes
> >>
> >>      v7: No change
> >>
> >>      v8: - Fix address of the PWM node
> >>       - Added doc about system timer and clocksource children nodes
> >>
> >>      v9: - Remove doc about system timer and clocksource children
> >>         nodes...
> >>      - Add doc about ingenic,pwm-channels-mask property
> >>
> >>      v10: No change
> >>
> >>      v11: Fix info about default value of ingenic,pwm-channels-mask
> >>
> >>      v12: Drop sub-nodes for now; they will be introduced in a
> >> follow-up
> >>               patchset.
> >
> > Why? I believe I acked them.
>
> The patchset was too big, and I've already been trying to get it
> upstream for
> more than one year now. So I cut it in half in hope that it'll be
> easier to
> upstream it that way.

You can drop the driver part and keep the binding. Unlike drivers, we
don't want bindings to needlessly evolve, and you don't have to wait
til a driver implements some functionality to add that to the binding.

Rob

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