Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] reset: Add Raspberry Pi 4 firmware reset controller

[Nicolas Saenz Julienne]

On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 12:02 +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 19:13 +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > Raspberry Pi 4's co-processor controls some of the board's HW
> > initialization process, but it's up to Linux to trigger it when
> > relevant. Introduce a reset controller capable of interfacing with
> > RPi4's co-processor that models these firmware initialization routines as
> > reset lines.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> If there is a good reason for the single DT specified reset id, I can
> pick up patches 1 and 2.

The idea here is to make sure we're reasonably covered against further changes
in firmware. If we define constraints too narrow it can be a pain to support
new features without breaking backwards compatibility in dt.

> If you change the dts patch 4 to use a number instead of the reset id
> define for now, there wouldn't even be a dependency between these reset
> and dts patches.

I was under the impression that having an explicit definition was nice to have.
What's troubling about creating the dependency?

Regards,
Nicolas

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