Re: [PATCH 3/3] gpio-vx855: Add device tree binding

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Sep 21 2011 - 12:37:55 EST


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:29:06AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:50:52PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Shouldn't we just have a property for the polarity?

> A flags cell in gpio specifiers (and irq specifiers for that matter) is
> well established practice.

Oh, well :( We need to establish what the general style is for stuff
like this, it feels like there's frequent conflict between existing
practice and what people want to do with new bindings (in addition to
the cases like the arrays where there's some issues in general).
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