Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: stm32: add simple-mfd compatible for tamp node

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 4:30 PM Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Rob,
>
> On 10/26/20 3:36 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:28:55PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> >> The stm32mp1 TAMP (Tamper and backup registers) does tamper detection
> >> and features 32 backup registers that, being in the RTC domain, may
> >> survive even with Vdd switched off.
> >>
> >> This makes it suitable for use to communicate a reboot mode from OS
> >> to bootloader via the syscon-reboot-mode binding. Add a "simple-mfd"
> >> to support probing such a child node. The actual reboot mode
> >> node could then be defined in a board.dts or fixed up by the bootloader.
> >
> > 'simple-mfd' implies there is no dependency on the parent node for the
> > child (such as the regmap perhaps). Is that the case here?
>
> No, there's a dependency and the Linux driver does syscon_node_to_regmap
> on the device tree node's parent but that's how the syscon-reboot-mode binding
> is documented:
>
>   The SYSCON mapped register is retrieved from the
>   parental dt-node plus the offset. So the SYSCON reboot-mode node
>   should be represented as a sub-node of a "syscon", "simple-mfd" node.
>
> How would you prefer this being done instead?

Well, probably the syscon driver could just probe any children, but
I'm not sure if that would break anyone. So I guess fine as-is.

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

Rob