Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] PCI: Add initial support for handling PCIe M.2 connectors in devicetree

From: Bjorn Helgaas

Date: Sat Jan 24 2026 - 16:07:42 EST


On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 10:46:50PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series is an initial attempt to support the PCIe M.2 connectors in the
> kernel and devicetree binding. The PCIe M.2 connectors as defined in the PCI
> Express M.2 Specification are widely used in Notebooks/Tablet form factors (even
> in PCs). On the ACPI platforms, power to these connectors are mostly handled by
> the firmware/BIOS and the kernel never bothered to directly power manage them as
> like other PCIe connectors. But on the devicetree platforms, the kernel needs to
> power manage these connectors with the help of the devicetree description. But
> so far, there is no proper representation of the M.2 connectors in devicetree
> binding. This forced the developers to fake the M.2 connectors as PMU nodes [1]
> and fixed regulators in devicetree.

Could you rebase this series on pci/pwrctrl, please?

I'm pretty sure I would mess up the conflict resolutions, and I have
no way to test this.