Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] dt-bindings: gpio: Add devicetree binding for RDA Micro GPIO controller

[Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Linus,

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 02:27:44PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 7:30 PM Manivannan Sadhasivam
> <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Add YAML devicetree binding for RDA Micro GPIO controller.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> First: this looks awesome to me,
> 
> Second: since this is kind of a first... could we move the standard GPIOchip
> YAML business into a generic gpiochip .yaml file?
> 
> We currently only have pl061-gpio.yaml and this would duplicate a lot
> of the stuff from that yaml file.
> 
> If you look at how
> display/panel/panel-common.yaml
> is used from say
> display/panel/ti,nspire.yaml
> 
> Could we do something similar and lift out all the generics from
> gpio-pl061.yaml to
> gpio-common.yaml
> and reference that also in the new binding?
> 
> If it seems hard, tell me and I can take a stab at it.
> 

Eventhough I really want to help you here, I'm running out of time
(and you know why). Let's consider merging this, and I'll come back at
it later.

Thanks,
Mani

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij