Re: [PATCH 00/15] dt-bindings: iio: dac: Add most missing binding documents.

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On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 07:09:18 +0000
"Sa, Nuno" <Nuno.Sa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2021 6:32 PM
> > To: linux-iio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> > devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>; Lars-Peter
> > Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>; Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> > Hennerich, Michael <Michael.Hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx>; Gwenhael
> > Goavec-Merou <gwenhael.goavec-merou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Michael
> > Welling <mwelling@xxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [PATCH 00/15] dt-bindings: iio: dac: Add most missing binding
> > documents.
> > 
> > From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > We have quite a few drivers in IIO that date back to the days of
> > platform
> > data.  Many of them either worked out of the box with device tree
> > due to the spi core using the spi_device_id to match against
> > device tree compatibles, or were updated to use newer interfaces in
> > the
> > intervening years.  As such, they mostly 'work' with device tree but
> > can have some slightly odd quirks (particularly around naming of
> > supplies).
> > As we have no way of knowing what is out in the wild, we need to
> > support
> > these interesting bits of regulator naming.
> > 
> > I would ultimately like all such bindings to be documented both to
> > facilitate
> > automated check of device trees and to make things easier for people
> > trying
> > to write device tree files using these devices.
> > 
> > This series fills in the majority of the absent bindings for DACs.
> > There are some outstanding
> > * max517 - some platform data configuration needs porting over to
> > device tree.
> > * m62332 - this passes a consumer mapping in as platform data and will
> > need
> >   careful porting over the dt way of doing that.
> > 
> > There is one 'fixlet' in here for the driver to deal with a case were the
> > code was intended to allow the presence of a regulator to dictate
> > whether
> > an internal reference was used, but did not use the optional regulator
> > get.
> > 
> > I've mostly nominated maintainers based on original authorship +
> > where
> > I was feeling guilty or couldn't find anyone still active I've listed myself.
> > 
> > I got bored half way through of producing brief descriptions of
> > the devices so stopped doing so. If anyone wants to provide one for
> > these
> > parts I'm happy to add it!
> > 
> > Future series will cover the c. 40 bindings that I've identified as missing
> > for other types of devices.  I've also kept notes of easy cleanups in
> > drivers spotted whilst working these out, so will probably follow up
> > with
> > those soon as well.
> > 
> > Note I haven't tested all of these so there may well be errors or
> > elements
> > I've missed.
> >   
> 
> LGTM... Just wondering if we could not add the adi,ad5421 directly into
> the trivial-devices yaml as it looks to be the only one without any odd
> regulator name?

We could, but would probably end up pulling it out again.  As noted in
that patch description there is a bunch of stuff the binding doesn't currently
support that would make sense to add if anyone actually needs it.

Hmm. I guess it's a question of whether we think anyone will ever care :)

Jonathan
> 
> Anyways, feel free to add:
> 
> Acked-by: Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@xxxxxxxxxx>




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