Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Walleij <> | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:02:08 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] gpio: Support gpio nexus dt bindings |
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:50 AM, Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org> wrote:
> Platforms like 96boards have a standardized connector/expansion > slot that exposes signals like GPIOs to expansion boards in an > SoC agnostic way. We'd like the DT overlays for the expansion > boards to be written once without knowledge of the SoC on the > other side of the connector. This avoids the unscalable > combinatorial explosion of a different DT overlay for each > expansion board and SoC pair. > > Now that we have nexus support in the OF core let's change the > function call here that parses the phandle lists of gpios to use > the nexus variant. This allows us to remap phandles and their > arguments through any number of nexus nodes and end up with the > actual gpio provider being used. > > Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Provided that patches 1 & 2 go in reviewed and merged by DT/device core people, they can merge this on top as well.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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