On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 02:17:15PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > Deprecate the open drain binding for fixed regulator and indicate > that we prefer this to be passed in the GPIO phandle flags. > > Clarify that the line inversion semantics for fixed and GPIO > regulators completely overrides the active low flags in the > phandle flags. > > Unfortunately this can not be changed to prefer that we pass > the flags in the phandle: the bindings have been specified and > deployed such that the presence/absence of this flag and only > that controls the line inversion semantics. The crucial semantic > is that the absence of the flag means the core will assume > the line is active low, which in GPIO terms is an exception, > as GPIO lines are normally assumed to be active high. > > This special device tree semantic cannot be changed without > introducing a whole new compatible string for the fixed and > GPIO regulators, so we just contain the situation. > > Cc: devicet...@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org> > --- > .../devicetree/bindings/regulator/fixed-regulator.txt | 13 > +++++++++++-- > .../devicetree/bindings/regulator/gpio-regulator.txt | 4 ++++ > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org>
