Re: [PATCH v9 1/3] gpio: bcm281xx: Add GPIO driver

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Hi Stephen,
On 13-09-10 01:02 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 09/10/2013 12:07 PM, Markus Mayer wrote:
From: Markus Mayer <mmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Add the GPIO driver for the Broadcom bcm281xx family of mobile SoCs.
These GPIO controllers may contain up to 8 banks where each bank
includes 32 pins that can be driven high or low and act as an edge
sensitive interrupt.
The binding,
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

although ...

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.txt
+This GPIO driver is used in the following Broadcom SoCs:
+  BCM11130, BCM11140, BCM11351, BCM28145, BCM28155
Given that, I would expect the documentation of the compatible property
to enumerate the compatible values for all of those different chips,
although the driver could choose to only bind to e.g. brcm,bcm11351-gpio
or brcm,kona-gpio, since they're all compatible with it.

How would this help ? All of these chips are part of the same family and thus quite similar (the primary difference being on the memory controller and packaging), and we can't know a priori on which variations bugs will happen, if any. So listing out a number of theoretical compatible properties in the documentation that most likely will never get used anyone doesn't seem to serve a purpose. If we were to need a workaround triggered on compatible, it would more likely be over a specific rev of the chip instead of the model within this family (as we have already done for rev a2 in cache-l2x0.c)

 Thanks,
   csd


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