Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] dt-bindings: PCI: rockchip,rk3399-pcie: Add PERST# inactive delay properties

[Enrique Hernández Bello]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2026, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Vendor driver does not matter, it is antipattern. Do not mention it here
> as reason to do such change.
>
> No need to repeat the diff.

Understood, both go in the next version.

> us or ms?

ms. The 0 case is badly worded: the driver never holds PERST# for less
than 100 us, whatever the value, and 0 just ends up at that floor. I will
describe the floor instead of giving 0 a meaning of its own.

> What is the nature of this timing? 100 ms is a lot. Are you sure you are
> not describing RC delay (we have bindings for that already)

The 100 ms is not something the board needs. It is the driver's current
wait, T_PVPERL from the CEM spec, applied on every board. Because PERST#
is already asserted when that wait starts, it is also the width of the
reset pulse.

On my board (ROCK Pi 4C) the slot supply is regulator-always-on, so power
has been stable for seconds before probe and there is nothing left to
settle. The problem goes the other way: the JMB585 behind it stops
answering configuration reads when it is held in reset that long. A wait
of 0 to 15 ms enumerated 17 times out of 17, 20 ms once out of 3, and
100 ms never in 5. So the board needs a shorter value, not a longer one.
I do not know why this endpoint behaves this way.

Which binding did you have in mind for the RC delay? If an existing one
fits, I would rather use it.

I also plan to drop rockchip,s2r-perst-inactive-ms, since it describes
an OS power state rather than the hardware.

Thanks,
Enrique