From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437C6C05027 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2023 14:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232630AbjBAOnm (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2023 09:43:42 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49226 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232550AbjBAOnU (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2023 09:43:20 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-x433.google.com (mail-wr1-x433.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::433]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C07D38003 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2023 06:43:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wr1-x433.google.com with SMTP id m14so17065057wrg.13 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:43:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=dC2Rf+qs0P/jrCe9msdGE8AkAgDIJW5HtHWs9aRUyUM=; b=ibXFxt9BRYojnFB5aMpK5zHfRUr3rTuXK8gbzrbbANcmXrBoR3/gZFAibr8X/eCyvG nZM2qAouhLUMXlBtMMSSx22Q2Wh+QbUCfXVemidC222OvyJrgcpA2z3s6d0cGPUOooas KfadIZ9z7m0x69PB9tFiOVfdYU/Ynba6LssKc07/efXQ255RPM8osrkZf3G4oXwnvGyJ hPqhdqdZrA0LkIDPCzL+aAsGQ5LcfPAg6yvUiSx1EiXVR2TfIplLZtYvjZQgZgA2SNw9 E4SeopzvVb5y0LGJbxCZzJvQtw6EmxbQvpnV2Je6RJhpaZj7HrcpJgIWti8ZHGNrppvk gd0w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=dC2Rf+qs0P/jrCe9msdGE8AkAgDIJW5HtHWs9aRUyUM=; b=3xmf6yO94ljW1PEPnzV8A+5kp/M2aDfLUU3l+l7xyffSpPrzkO+5jM5L0prpsqVCWR 0TAC2hZrf5lVFkLaTd1taldLXJNehRDsQ9ITTgN8TZQX+3MsYuE3vxkUrwSJWbaOx7zN lAa7xj2yudJvTh/CTy3itc7zcBVMhhW7ETH4r4jyVRWm+ITvCtUgRqvh4fWt9jPSfGtc ehXtUbwe8ZY58YIL7tQjCgoBcY5KmOVEBAMoFoGcc/1j1ctMsLJbBJsrPPOYJKxmEgZp aiVWWkCVaqwm/p5Gm7E2PRzBxqOYiSDvQmxW9MI9etXg0BEbFpCjZLwgQ+4LGlcYBCa+ PZ3Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKWRtY560FRvyGvj4UkZumipIuUtmRacEjMcLWA+J/AKmyzbdkj2 ZXVY1dqxnNRYUf4Oo7T2G+Ia5w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set8PI06q3hLefAX/yzLn2ALEYmydTMRpaxfh4uUmHXpFyC9Y/mCBDAhLTB1c6A+QZNC14bxd6A== X-Received: by 2002:adf:d1e9:0:b0:2bf:9543:2bea with SMTP id g9-20020adfd1e9000000b002bf95432beamr3759674wrd.35.1675262594646; Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.109] ([178.197.216.144]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r8-20020adfda48000000b002be25db0b7bsm17513102wrl.10.2023.02.01.06.43.13 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:43:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6491d6fb-2a10-1c80-d422-8300d5a75ce4@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 15:43:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.7.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: dt-bindings: Drop broken irondevice,sma1303 binding Content-Language: en-US To: Mark Brown Cc: Liam Girdwood , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kiseok Jo References: <20230201131059.65527-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> <1bcd61d6-810f-1239-1b6e-367e0fe87370@linaro.org> From: Krzysztof Kozlowski In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 01/02/2023 15:03, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 02:13:46PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >> On 01/02/2023 14:10, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > >>> Because the binding: >>> 1. Was never tested, >>> 2. Was never sent to Devicetree maintainers, >>> 3. Is entirely broken and wrong, so it would have to be almost rewritten >>> from scratch, >>> 4. It does not match the driver, IOW, the binding is fake. > >> I understand that in general we tend to fix, not just to revert. But the >> poor quality of this binding and the next patch, which was suppose to >> fix it, plus complete lack of testing, means I do not believe the author >> will send correct binding. > >> More over, fixing binding might require dropping incorrect properties, >> thus changing the driver. I am not willing to do that, I doubt that >> anyone has the time for it. > > It is an absolutely trivial binding as is, it is utterly > disproportionate to delete both the binding and the driver to fix > whatever it is that the issues you're seeing are (I can't really tell > TBH). Undocumented properties are a separate thing but again a revert > is obviously disproportionate here, glancing at the driver the code is > all well enough separated and can have default values. Looking again I > did miss the sysclk selection which should be dropped, clocks should use > the clock bindings. > >> It's the job of submitter to work on it. > > It's also not the end of the world if we have a driver that isn't > perfect. > > Please, try to keep things constructive. I tried. I started writing patch to fix few things in this binding and then noticed that it is entirely empty and documents nothing. The trouble is that soon you will send it to Linus and then it becomes the ABI even though no one ever approved or reviewed the actual ABI. Best regards, Krzysztof