[PATCH v5 1/2] dt-bindings: mmc: Extend keep-power-in-suspend beyond SDIO

From: Kamal Dasu

Date: Wed Jul 29 2026 - 16:15:11 EST


keep-power-in-suspend already documents exactly the requirement
needed on (e)MMC platforms where firmware accesses the card directly
during resume. Rather than add a separate property describing the
same contract, drop its "SDIO only" restriction and document the
(e)MMC use case alongside the existing SDIO one.

Signed-off-by: Kamal Dasu <kamal.dasu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v5:
- Added Krzysztof's Reviewed-by.

Changes in v4:
- Dropped no-mmc-poweroff-suspend entirely and extended
keep-power-in-suspend instead, per Krzysztof: the two properties
described the same "don't power off across suspend/resume"
contract.

Changes in v3:
- Renamed from no-mmc-sleep; dropped S_A_TIMEOUT framing per Ulf.

Changes in v2:
- New patch, replacing v1's card-level quirk, per Ulf.

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc-controller-common.yaml | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc-controller-common.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc-controller-common.yaml
index 3d7195e9461c..f4663b318435 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc-controller-common.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc-controller-common.yaml
@@ -291,7 +291,12 @@ properties:
keep-power-in-suspend:
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
description:
- SDIO only. Preserves card power during a suspend/resume cycle.
+ Preserves card power during a suspend/resume cycle. For SDIO,
+ this is a request an individual function driver can make at
+ runtime via sdio_set_host_pm_flags(). For (e)MMC, it is instead
+ a fixed platform characteristic, needed on boards where firmware
+ accesses the card directly during system resume, before the
+ kernel's own resume path runs.

wakeup-source:
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
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