linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: pinctrl: Drop k3

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Date:   Fri, 2 Jun 2023 08:46:04 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Tero Kristo <kristo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: pinctrl: Drop k3

On 01/06/2023 19:38, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> For convenience (less code duplication), the pin controller pin
> configuration register values were defined in the bindings header.
> These are not some IDs or other abstraction layer but raw numbers used
> in the registers.
> 
> These constants do not fit the purpose of bindings. They do not
> provide any abstraction, any hardware and driver independent ID. In
> fact, the Linux pinctrl-single driver actually do not use the bindings
> header at all.
> 
> Commit f2de003e1426 ("dt-bindings: pinctrl: k3: Deprecate header with
> register constants") already moved users to the local header, so, drop
> the binding header. See background discussion in [1].
> 

This happened just a release ago, so I would rather expect to have it
deprecated for some time, so out of tree DTBs won't be broken. But any
platform ABI is up to platform maintainer so:

Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof