On 03/31/2016 03:36 PM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 05:50:09PM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote: >>>> Add pinctrl and gpio DT bindings for PLX Technology OXNAS SoC Family. >>>> This version supports the ARM926EJ-S based OX810SE SoC with 34 IO pins. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >>>> + - plxtech,gpio-bank: Specifies which bank a controller owns. >>> >>> How is this used? >> >> That is used to give a unique ID number to the bank. >> >> Hardware often need this to cross-reference pin controllers >> to GPIO banks. >> >> I should add it as "gpio-bank" to the generic bindings >> instead, several platforms already use this and there is >> no point in having a vendor prefix in front of it. > > Okay, now it is clearer. I don't want this documented as a common > property because I don't want to encourage it's use. I only see 2 > users currently: ST and PIC32. > > Looking at one example, it appears to be redundant already. > nomadik-gpio-chips property already gives you the index. The index of > the phandles is the bank numbering. PIC32 could do the same. > > Rob > Hi, What should I use ? I need to repost in a separate patchset with vendor replaced by Oxford Semiconductor. Should I get rid of the vendor prefix of gpio-bank ? Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
