Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Walleij <> | Date | Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:27:05 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] OF phandle nexus support + GPIO nexus |
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org> wrote:
> 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. > > The first patch implements a generic method to do this, and the second patch > adds a unit test for it. The third patch is more of an example than anything > else. It shows how we would modify frameworks to use the new API. > > Stephen Boyd (3): > of: Support parsing phandle argument lists through a nexus node > of: unittest: Add phandle remapping test > gpio: Support gpio nexus dt bindings
Looks perfectly reasonable to me. But it's mainly for the DT people to review I guess.
I have no idea about the eventual merge path though, I guess it needs to go through the OF tree with my ACK.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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