Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: counter: add pulse-counter binding

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Jan 28 2021 - 03:19:05 EST


Hi Oleksij,

thanks for your patch!

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:15 PM Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add binding for the pulse counter node
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(...)

> +properties:
> + compatible:
> + const: virtual,pulse-counter

What is so virtual about this? The device seems very real.
However it is certainly a GPIO counter.

I would call it "gpio-counter" simply.

Define:
$nodename:
pattern: "^counter(@.*)?$"

> + counter-0 {

counter@0 {

> + counter-1 {

counter@1 {

Thanks!
Linus Walleij