On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 05:55:22PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > The initial intent when the binding of the cp110 system controller was to > have one flat node. The idea being that what is currently a clock-only > driver in drivers would become a MFD driver, exposing the clock, GPIO and > pinctrl functionality. However, after taking a step back, this would lead > to a messy binding. Indeed, a single node would be a GPIO controller, > clock controller, pinmux controller, and more. > > This patch adopts a more classical solution of a top-level syscon node > with sub-nodes for the individual devices. The main benefit will be to > have each functional block associated to its own sub-node where we can > put its own properties. > > The introduction of the Armada 7K/8K is still in the early stage so the > plan is to remove the old binding. However, we don't want to break the > device tree compatibility for the few devices already in the field. For > this we still keep the support of the legacy compatible string with a big > warning in the kernel about updating the device tree. Good. > Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell/cp110-system-controller0.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++---- > drivers/clk/mvebu/cp110-system-controller.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- > 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
