On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 04:04:21PM GMT, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 08/07/2024 08:40, Liu Ying wrote:
> >>> +
> >>> +  "^framegen@[0-9a-f]+$":
> >>> +    type: object
> >>> +    additionalProperties: true
> >>> +
> >>> +    properties:
> >>> +      compatible:
> >>> +        const: fsl,imx8qxp-dc-framegen
> >>> +
> >>> +  "^gammacor@[0-9a-f]+$":
> >>
> >> This looks like you are organizing bindings per your driver architecture.
> > 
> > As I mentioned in cover letter, this series addresses Maxime's
> > comment for the previous series - split the display controller
> > into multiple internal devices.  Maxime insisted on doing this.
> 
> But these are not separate devices. Look:
> 1. parent DC:
> reg = <0x56180000 0x40000>;
> 
> 2. child interrupt controller:
> reg = <0x56180040 0x60>;
> 
> That address is within parent.
> 
> 3. Then we go to things like:
> reg = <0x5618b400 0x14>, <0x5618b800 0x1c00>;
> 
> Still within parent's range and just few words in address range. That's
> a clear indication that you choose few registers and call it a "device".

That's never really been a metric though?

If not, one could just create a "soc" device node covering the entire
register map, and since it would overlap despite clearly defined
features, you would claim it's a single device?

Maxime

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