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Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon subdirectory

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On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 11:07 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 09:39 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:53:21PM +1100, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> > > > The use of syscons is growing, lets collate them in their own part of
> > > > the bindings tree.
> > > > 
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
> > > > 
> > > > ---
> > > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/aspeed-scu.txt         | 0
> > > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-gpbr.txt         | 0
> > > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-matrix.txt       | 0
> > > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-smc.txt          | 0
> > > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/qcom,tcsr.txt          | 0
> > > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/syscon.txt             | 0
> > > >  .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/ti-keystone-devctrl.txt          | 0
> > > >  7 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/aspeed-scu.txt (100%)
> > > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-gpbr.txt (100%)
> > > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-matrix.txt (100%)
> > > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-smc.txt (100%)
> > > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/qcom,tcsr.txt (100%)
> > > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/syscon.txt (100%)
> > > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/ti-keystone-devctrl.txt (100%)
> > > 
> > > I'm not so sure this is the right direction. syscon usage is pretty much 
> > > spread throughout the tree.
> > 
> > This patch was created based on my interpretation of Lee's feedback
> > here:
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/18/650
> > 
> > Lee's next email in the chain poked Arnd for an opinion, but Arnd
> > didn't reply.
> > 
> > I don't mind. I moved these bindings separately so we could just drop
> > the patch if there was push-back. If we drop the whole idea I'll need
> > to apply a small fix to patch 5/6 to avoid creating the syscon
> > subdirectory.
> 
> The sub-directory is a good idea for drivers who are *solely* syscon
> based.
> 

Yes, I wasn't saying otherwise, just commenting on my motivation and
approach.

As far as I can tell all of the bindings I move here describe solely
syscon-based devices.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon  subdirectory Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-12-12 16:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon  subdirectory Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> - 2016-12-13 06:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon  subdirectory Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-12-13 12:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon  subdirectory Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> - 2016-12-13 13:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon subdirectory Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-12-13 13:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon  subdirectory Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> - 2016-12-13 13:40 +0100

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