[PATCH 1/2] ARM: efm32: switch to properly namespaced location property

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Uwe Kleine-K?nig
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Olof,

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:

quoted

I really don't want a hodge-podge of whatever someone felt like
picking as a name at the time. It makes it really hard for newcomers
to find a good best practices to follow, and over time will result in
total chaos.

That's right. I did it in good faith. If you think it would be worth to
switch to say "energymicro,location" I think it wouldn't be that hard,
because I think there are no boards in the wild that use a device tree
and don't use the BSP I'm providing where switching is a no brainer.

Yeah, let's do it now before there are users, if that's OK with you.

quoted

What's this binding for anyway? It looks a lot like an ad-hoc pinctrl
binding for configuring pinout, is that accurate?

Well, it has to do with pinctrl, but it was agreed that managing it with
a single pinctrl device would complicate things considerably and in the
end the device tree wouldn't describe how the hardware looks like but
would result in a lot of complexity just to fit into the Linux pinctrl
model.

See the thread around
http://marc.info/?l=linux-spi&m=137485291802157&w=2 for the glory
details.

OK, thanks for the background.


-Olof