Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: pinctrl: sunxi: document new generic binding

[Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 01:25:21AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> So far all the Allwinner pinctrl drivers provided a table in the
> kernel to describe all the pins and the link between the pinctrl functions
> names (strings) and their respective mux values (register values).
> 
> Extend the binding to put those mappings in the DT, so that any SoC can
> describe its pinctrl and GPIO data fully there instead of relying on
> tables.
> This uses a generic compatible name, to be prepended with an SoC
> specific name in the node.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../bindings/pinctrl/allwinner,sunxi-pinctrl.txt   | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)

I'm leaving this one to Linus...

Generally, this has not been the direction we've wanted to go. What 
makes this unique to Allwinner?

Rob
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