On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 11:45, Linus Walleij [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 4:58 PM Rafał Miłecki [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

As pointed by Rob, CRU is a kind of block that can't be guaranteed to
have everything exposed as subnodes. It's a set of various registers
that aren't tied to any single device. It could be described much more
accurately as MFD (Multi-Function Device).

Some hardware blocks may indeed want to access a register or two of the
CRU which requires describing it as the "syscon".

While at it replace exmple node name with the standard "pinctrl" (also
pointed out by Rob).

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
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Hi Linus,

After being pinged about the pinctrl driver I realized I never addressed
Rob's comments from the e-mail thread:

[PATCH] dt-bindings: pinctrl: bcm4708-pinmux: improve example binding
https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg682838.html
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/984024/

Rob has pointed correctly (as always) that describing CRU using
"simple-bus" has its implications and may hunt us back if we ever
realize we will want to reference it as "syscon". That is pretty likely
actually.

To fix that while still possible (before having that Documentation in
any stable release) I'd like you to consider taking this patch for the
4.20 release if you find it possible.

I'm well aware it's damn late. I'm aware I've screwed up. I'm sorry.

I'm afraid I cannot fix it anyhow. Just take a look at that patch and
feel free to say I'm crazy coming with it so late.

I just applied it. It's not like it's etched in stone though some
people may have that mental model.

If the DT maintainers have further concerns we can patch it
again.

Rough consensus and running code.

Thank you, I appreciate it!

-- 
Rafał

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