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

[Rob Herring]

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>
> ---
> 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.

I would say yes. Particularly if it gets rid of a conditional schema.

Rob