On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 05:58:03PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > As for cp110, the initial intent when the binding of the ap806 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. > > Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell/ap806-system-controller.txt | 20 +++++++++++++++----- > drivers/clk/mvebu/ap806-system-controller.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 17 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
