Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] dt-bindings: mfd: Add Realtek MISC system controller

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 17/11/2025 13:41, Yu-Chun Lin [林祐君] wrote:
>>>
>>
>> None of them. You need SoC specific compatibles which can be used as
>> fallbacks for SoC specific compatibles. There is plenty of examples for this
>> already, but anyway this does not solve the problem that you still did not
>> properly describe the hardware but instead use your downstream as
>> arguments.
>>
>> This will get you nowhere.
> 
> To implement this fallback structure, my understanding is that the
> SoC-level DTSI should override the node and prepend its SoC-specific
> Compatible, while the common DTSI only provides the family-level
> compatible.
> 
> /* common DTSI */
> misc: syscon@... {
>     compatible = "realtek,kent-misc", "syscon", "simple-mfd";

No. You changed nothing. How does this differ from options I disagreed with?

Anyway, there is no such SoC as "kent" and I was clear - you need SoC
compatibles.

Define what is your SoC first.

Best regards,
Krzysztof