Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: Add configuration for PMI8950 peripheral

From: Luca Weiss
Date: Fri Dec 09 2022 - 11:55:27 EST


On Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2022 12:20:55 CET Marijn Suijten wrote:
> On 2022-12-08 11:23:17, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 08/12/2022 11:12, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> > > On 2022-12-04 17:19:05, Luca Weiss wrote:
> > >> On Freitag, 2. Dezember 2022 10:36:58 CET Marijn Suijten wrote:
> > >> [..]
> > >>
> > >> So the way this patch does it is good or does it need changes?
> > >
> > > Except the typo(s?) pointed out in my first reply, this is good to go.
> > >
> > > If we stick with generic adc-chan node names that should be documented
> > > in the bindings IMO, as it is currently only captured implicitly in the
> > > examples. Krzysztof, what is your thought on this?
> >
> > If I understand correctly, the outcome of other discussion [1] was to
> > use labels and generic node names.
>
> The outcome was to use labels in the driver and disregard node names as
> the new fwnode API clobbers those names by including the @xx register
> bit.
>
> (I'll follow up with Jonathan whether or not to remove the current
> fallback to node names, as [1] ended up discussing many different issues
> and nits)
>
> > In such case the patch was correct
> > (except other comments).
>
> As a consequence it _doesn't matter_ how nodes are named, and we _can_
> use generic node names. My question for you is whether we should, and
> if we should lock that in via dt-bindings to guide everyone towards
> using labels (which i did _not_ do in the recently-landed PM8950 and
> PM6125, but will send followup for).

FYI the patch has been merged already and is now in linux-next
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/pmi8950.dtsi?id=0d97fdf380b478c358c94f50f1b942e87f407b9b

If you have any changes that need to be done please send a follow-up patch.

Regards
Luca

>
> > [1]
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20221112162719.0ac87998@jic23-huawei
> > /
>
> - Marijn