On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Stephen Boyd [off-list ref] wrote:

This is a continutation of my phandle remapping/nexus node series
from a while ago. I finally got around to writing the documentation
in the spec for this, but it's really rough around the edges and
could use some review/suggestions to get it into shape. Please
review!

This is one small chunk of work related to DT overlays for expansion
boards. It would be good to have a way to expose #<list>-cells types of
providers through a connector in a standard way. So we introduce a way
to make "nexus" nodes for these types of properties to remap the consumer
number space to the other side of the connector's number space. It's
basically a copy of the interrupt nexus implementation, but without
the address space matching design and interrupt-parent walking.

This generally looks good to me. I'm inclined to merge the kernel
parts now and sort the spec addition out afterwards. With no users
yet, we can still tweak things if needed.

I would like to see more comments on this though. Perhaps "OF phandle
nexus" is too obscure. Maybe "Add DT overlay connector bindings" would
trick some people in looking at it...

Rob