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    clk: mvebu: cp110: introduce a new binding · 5ffeb5f5
    Gregory CLEMENT authored
    The initial intent when the binding of the cp110 system controller was to
    have one flat node. The idea being that what is currently a clock-only
    driver in drivers would become a MFD driver, exposing the clock, GPIO and
    pinctrl functionality. However, after taking a step back, this would lead
    to a messy binding. Indeed, a single node would be a GPIO controller,
    clock controller, pinmux controller, and more.
    
    This patch adopts a more classical solution of a top-level syscon node
    with sub-nodes for the individual devices. The main benefit will be to
    have each functional block associated to its own sub-node where we can
    put its own properties.
    
    The introduction of the Armada 7K/8K is still in the early stage so the
    plan is to remove the old binding. However, we don't want to break the
    device tree compatibility for the few devices already in the field. For
    this we still keep the support of the legacy compatible string with a big
    warning in the kernel about updating the device tree.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
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