Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: mfd: x-powers,axp152: make interrupt optional for more chips

[Conor Dooley]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 03:18:29PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> All X-Powers PMICs described by this binding have an IRQ pin, and so
> far (almost) all boards connected this to some NMI pin or GPIO on the SoC
> they are connected to.
> However we start to see boards that omit this connection, and technically
> the IRQ pin is not essential to the basic PMIC operation.
> The existing Linux driver allows skipping an IRQ pin setup for some
> chips already, so update the binding to also make the DT property
> optional for these chips, so that we can actually have DTs describing
> boards with the PMIC interrupt not wired up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Hi,
> 
> arguably the IRQ functionality is optional for many more PMICs,
> especially if a board doesn't use GPIOs or a power key.
> So I wonder if the interrupts property should become optional for all?
> After all it's more a board designer's decision to wire up the IRQ pin
> or not, and nothing that's really related to a particular PMIC.

No ack for this, but if the things function without the interrupts
wired up, it seems like it'd make sense to drop others too.

Cheers,
Conor.

> 
> Cheers,
> Andre
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/x-powers,axp152.yaml | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/x-powers,axp152.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/x-powers,axp152.yaml
> index 9ad55746133b5..06f1779835a1e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/x-powers,axp152.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/x-powers,axp152.yaml
> @@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ allOf:
>          properties:
>            compatible:
>              contains:
> -              const: x-powers,axp305
> +              enum:
> +                - x-powers,axp15060
> +                - x-powers,axp305
> +                - x-powers,axp313a
>  
>      then:
>        required:
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>

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