linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/19] dt-bindings: arm: move AT91 to generic Microchip binding

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Message-ID: <2025121622404642e6f789@mail.local>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:40:46 +0100
From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/19] dt-bindings: arm: move AT91 to generic
 Microchip binding

On 16/12/2025 19:21:27+0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 06:26:44PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 16/12/2025 17:56:20+0100, Robert Marko wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM Alexandre Belloni
> > > <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 15/12/2025 17:35:21+0100, Robert Marko wrote:
> > > > > Create a new binding file named microchip.yaml, to which all Microchip
> > > > > based devices will be moved to.
> > > > >
> > > > > Start by moving AT91, next will be SparX-5.
> > > >
> > > > Both lines of SoCs are designed by different business units and are
> > > > wildly different and while both business units are currently owned by
> > > > the same company, there are no guarantees this will stay this way so I
> > > > would simply avoid merging both.
> > > 
> > > Hi Alexandre,
> > > 
> > > The merge was requested by Conor instead of adding a new binding for LAN969x [1]
> > > 
> > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20251203122313.1287950-2-robert.marko@sartura.hr/
> > > 
> > 
> > I would still keep them separate, SparX-5 is closer to what is
> > devicetree/bindings/mips/mscc.txt than to any atmel descended SoCs.
> 
> If you don't want the sparx-5 stuff in with the atmel bits, that's fine,
> but I stand over my comments about this lan969x stuff not getting a file
> of its own.
> Probably that means putting it in the atmel file, alongside the lan966x
> boards that are in there at the moment.

I'm fine with this.

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Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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