On 30.03.2023 17:31, Rob Herring wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:12:28PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote: >> The OnSemi NB7VPQ904M Type-C DP altmode redriver provides SBU signals >> that can be used in with the gpio-sbu-mux driver. Document it. >> >> Note that the -mux suffix is there to indicate that the gpio-sbu-mux >> driver interacts with the mux part of this otherwise quite sophisticated >> chip, leaving the "onnn,nb7vpq904m" compatible free for when a proper >> driver taking care of all of the chip's capabilities is introduced. > > You should define a proper and complete binding. If you want to bind the > gpio-sbu-mux driver to it now until you have a proper driver then that's > fine. When you have such a driver, then you drop the compatible from the > gpio-sbu-mux driver. Okay, that makes perfect sense and is good to know. Perhaps even worth documenting somewhere. I think I'll delay resending this and get an "actual" driver going. Konrad > > Note that having the fallback "gpio-sbu-mux" is somewhat problematic > because the kernel has no mechanism to ensure you bind the most specific > driver. For that to happen, it would have to support (automatically) > unbinding one driver and binding to the more specific driver since one > driver could be built-in and the other a module. > > Rob
