Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: Intersil isl12057 is not a trivial device

From	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: Intersil isl12057 is not a trivial device
Date	2016-07-20 21:40 +0200
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On 14/07/2016 at 22:10:48 +0200, Arnaud Ebalard wrote :
> Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
> > The ISL12057 has a documentation file, remove it from trivial-devices.txt
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
> > index 539874490492..a397d39ea741 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
> > @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ fsl,sgtl5000		SGTL5000: Ultra Low-Power Audio Codec
> >  gmt,g751		G751: Digital Temperature Sensor and Thermal Watchdog with Two-Wire Interface
> >  infineon,slb9635tt	Infineon SLB9635 (Soft-) I2C TPM (old protocol, max 100khz)
> >  infineon,slb9645tt	Infineon SLB9645 I2C TPM (new protocol, max 400khz)
> > -isil,isl12057		Intersil ISL12057 I2C RTC Chip
> >  isil,isl29028		Intersil ISL29028 Ambient Light and Proximity Sensor
> >  maxim,ds1050		5 Bit Programmable, Pulse-Width Modulator
> >  maxim,max1237		Low-Power, 4-/12-Channel, 2-Wire Serial, 12-Bit ADCs
> 
> No strong advice on this but I thought it qualified as a trivial device
> because it did not *need* anything else except a compatible, an address
> and possibly an interrupt. The additional boolean property documented in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/isil,isl12057.txt is optional.
> 

Well, my thinking is that trivial devices are in trivial-devices.txt
because they are not documented anywhere else. This is mostly the case.


-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[PATCH 0/3] rtc: remove intersil isl12057 Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-07-13 03:10 +0200
  [PATCH 2/3] rtc: ds1307: add Intersil ISL12057 support Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-07-13 03:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtc: ds1307: add Intersil ISL12057 support arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard) - 2016-07-14 22:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: Intersil isl12057 is not a trivial device Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-07-13 03:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: Intersil isl12057 is not a trivial device arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard) - 2016-07-14 22:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: Intersil isl12057 is not a  trivial device Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-07-20 21:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: Intersil isl12057 is not a trivial device Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> - 2016-07-21 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] rtc: remove intersil isl12057 arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard) - 2016-07-14 22:20 +0200

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