Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND 1/2] dt-bindings: serial: 8250: Add MediaTek BTIF controller bindings

[Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>]

On 08/27/2017 10:39 PM, Sean Wang wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 22:00 +0300, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>
>> On 08/19/2017 09:06 PM, sean.wang@mediatek.com wrote:
>>> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
>>>
>>> Document the devicetree bindings in 8250.txt for MediaTek BTIF
>>> controller which could be found on MT7622 and MT7623 SoC.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
>>> ---
>>>    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt | 3 +++
>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt
>>> index 419ff6c..7528d90 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt
>>> @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Required properties:
>>>    	  tegra132, or tegra210.
>>>    	- "nxp,lpc3220-uart"
>>>    	- "ralink,rt2880-uart"
>>> +	- For MediaTek MT7623, must contain "mediatek,mt7623-btif"
>>> +	- For other MediaTek SoCs , must contain "mediatek,<chip>-btif",
>>> +	  "mediatek,mt7623-btif" where <chip> is mt7622.
>>
>> Hm, to me that's confusing. What about:
>> "mediatek,mt7623-btif": for MediaTek MT7623
>> "mediatek,mt7622-btif", "mediatek,mt7623-btif": for MediaTek MT7622
>>
>> If in the future we have more SoCs that support the BTIF, we should add them
>> like the mt7622 case.
>>
> 
> I had v3, but it should have similar logic and also got ack from Rob
> 
> I knew all your logic of adding binding document for all MediaTek
> devices, even I alway added MediaTek device in dt-bindings as the way
> you mentioned here, but I felt this way is fine for this kind of
> dedicated document.
> 
> The reason i don't add it as usual is the following. 8250.txt is common
> and shared among all uart like devices, so i don't want btif device
> occupies too much section and bloat the document when every new MediaTek
> SoC is introduced.
> 
> So instead I refer to existing Nvidia device added in 8250.txt  which I
> thought its way is simple, elegant and also using pattern I can use to
> add btif devices.
> 

Working on my email backlog after vactions I didn't see that this was accepted 
by Rob. Sorry for the noise.

Matthias