Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] dt-bindings: PCI: starfive,jh7110-pcie: Add enable-gpios property

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 21/11/2025 05:23, Hal Feng wrote:
>> On 12.11.25 21:54, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 04:29:42PM +0800, Hal Feng wrote:
>>> Add enable-gpios property for controlling the PCI bus device power.
>>> This property had been supported in the driver but not added in the
>>> dt-bindings.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
>>> Fixes: 22fe32239770 ("dt-bindings: PCI: Add StarFive JH7110 PCIe
>>> controller")
>>> Signed-off-by: Hal Feng <hal.feng@starfivetech.com>
>>> ---
>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/pci/starfive,jh7110-pcie.yaml         | 4 ++++
>>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git
>>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/starfive,jh7110-pcie.yaml
>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/starfive,jh7110-pcie.yaml
>>> index 33c80626e8ec..1e36f92ec852 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/starfive,jh7110-pcie.yaml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/starfive,jh7110-pcie.yaml
>>> @@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ properties:
>>>      description:
>>>        The phandle to System Register Controller syscon node.
>>>
>>> +  enable-gpios:
>>> +    description: GPIO used to enable the PCI bus device power
>>
>> This feels wrong to me. Is this GPIO associated with the PCIe controller? I bet
>> this is just controlling some regulator that powers the VDD of the PCIe
>> device/slot. If so, this should be added as a part of the regulator node and
>> referenced in the PCIe node using the existing -supply properties.
> 
> This GPIO just controls the power of PCIe devices, not PCIe controller.
> I think there may be no design adding power control GPIOs for the PCIe controller,
> because usually we don't need to control the PCIe controller power but the PCIe
> device power.

So this is not PCIe controller enable gpios...

> 
> I find a similar "pwren-gpios" in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/sifive,fu740-pcie.yaml .
> It uses the GPIO to control the power of PCIe devices too.
> 
> Could I continue to do so? Thanks.

No. You already got response what you are supposed to do. Please read it.

Best regards,
Krzysztof