Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] dt-bindings: reset: Add mt6589 toprgu reset IDs

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 12/08/2026 12:35, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 04:20:11PM +0200, Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
>>
>>> We do not take bits, but identifiers of resets.
>>
>> Currently the existing mtk_wdt.c driver does not use a reset table
>> that binds identifiers to bits for any of the existing devices. There
>> are a bunch of mediatek,mt*.h files under dt-bindings/reset [3] that
>> point directly to reset bits instead of being indexes.
> 
> Many got accepted unnoticed, many times we did not care, but the point
> is still valid - pure hardware numbers do not belong to the bindings,
> because they do not bind any pieces of code. The proper binding header
> constants bind DTS with SW implementation, so two pieces of code. Not
> applicable here.
> 
>> I can introduce a reset table in the driver, but it would break
>> existing devices as those bits are referred in device trees and they
>> are often non-contiguous (e.g. [4]). As before, it could be done by
> 
> Then these bits stay as is in DTS but bindings header is not needed. You
> can have of course DTS header, as we did in the past multiple times for
> such hardware constants.

So I wrote above this to myself and can be ignored completely? Then why
would we not ignore your patches?

Best regards,
Krzysztof