To quote the author:
I wanted to add support for ti,lp5562, and found an old submission
from Doug. While trying to modify that to work in current U-Boot, I
found a problem with the "move label handling to core" patches.
Patch 1 is a prerequisite for the ti,lp5562 driver, which turned out
to be needed by Christian as well.
Patch 2 is an attempt at (quick-)fixing the mentioned "move label
handling to core" problem. The real fix consists of changing remaining
drivers to not bind the same driver to the top node as to the child
nodes, but I can't test those other drivers.
Patch 3 introduces a helper which should allow removing some
boilerplate in most individual drivers, and 4,5 apply that in the gpio
and pwm drivers. Converting remaining drivers is trivial, but left out
for now.
Finally patch 6 is the reworked lp5562 driver. While I've changed it
to match existing DT bindings (with the goal of making it work with
our .dts that is known to work with the linux driver), most of the
logic is unchanged from Doug's original patch, so he is still listed
as author.
Changes in v2: Interchange order of patches 1 and 2, add a few R-bs,
and try to trim down the commit message in patch 2.
Device Tree Bindings Staging Area
=================================
This directory contains device tree bindings for U-Boot.
These follow along with Linux kernel bindings, with a few additions. By
adding the files here, U-Boot patches can clearly show thees additions.
This makes it easier for device tree people to review these additions in
patches sent to the U-Boot mailing list.
The intent IS to commit these files to U-Boot. Hopefully at some point
the files will be stored in another repo (shared with Linux) which is
brought in as needed. Changes here are intended to mirror changes in the
Linux Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ directory.
sjg@chromium.org
17-Jan-12
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