Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: pinctrl: qcom,pmic-mpp: clean up example

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On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:56 AM Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 08:43:20AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 06:28:34PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > The Multi-Purpose Pin controller block is part of an SPMI PMIC (which in
> > > turns sits on an SPMI bus) and uses a single value for the register
> > > property that corresponds to its base address.
> > >
> > > Clean up the example by adding a parent PMIC node with proper
> > > '#address-cells' and '#size-cells' properties, dropping the incorrect
> > > second register value, adding some newline separators and increasing the
> > > indentation to four spaces.
> >
> > This is fine, but I prefer these MFDs have 1 complete example rather
> > than piecemeal examples for each child device.
>
> Yeah, this is not ideal. The closest thing we've got are the examples
> in:
>
>         Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/qcom,spmi-pmic.yaml
>
> Are you suggesting eventually dropping the examples from the child node
> bindings and adding (several) complete examples in the parent one?

Yes, but if the child nodes are truly reused across multiple PMICs
then, it is probably a worthwhile exception. There's not a great deal
of reuse on most MFDs.

> I guess there would need to be more than one if you want to cover all
> the various child nodes with real examples.

We don't want examples to be exhaustive permutations of every
possibility either.

Rob





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