Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:42:45 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: gpio: guidelines for bindings | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
> Now that ACPI supports named GPIO properties, either through ACPI 5.1 or > the per-driver ACPI GPIO mappings, we can be more narrow about the way > GPIOs should be specified in Device Tree bindings. > > This patch updates the GPIO DT bindings documentation to highlight the > following rules for new GPIO bindings: > > - All new bindings must have a meaningful name (e.g. the "gpios" > property must not be used) > - The only suffix allowed is "-gpios", no matter the number of > descriptors in the property > - GPIOs can only be grouped under the same property when they serve the > same purpose, a case that should remain exceptional (e.g. bit-banged > data lines). > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> > CC: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > CC: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> > CC: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> > --- > Changes since v1: > - Rewritten in OS-neutral manner.
Patch applied with the ACKs, thanks!
Yours, Linus Walleij
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