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From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro.jz@renesas.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	"linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Paterson <Chris.Paterson2@renesas.com>,
	Biju Das <biju.das@bp.renesas.com>,
	"linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org" 
	<linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mfd: Add RZ/V2M PWC core driver
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:05:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7WjrrSvLanjNhyX@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <TYWPR01MB877591E80CE112429DE3FC9BC2F59@TYWPR01MB8775.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com>

> > > > If you do not have any resources to share, you can simply register
> > each
> > > > of the devices via Device Tree.  I do not see a valid reason to force
> > a
> > > > parent / child relationship for your use-case.
> > >
> > > There would probably be overlapping on the same memory region, which
> > would
> > > lead to ioremapping the same region multiple times, which is something
> > > I would prefer to avoid if possible.
> > 
> > Okay, so you *do* have shared resources.
> > 
> > In which case, why is simple-mfd not working for you?
> 
> The corresponding dt-bindings got rejected, unfortunately. I had to drop
> simple-mfd as a result of dropping the children of my simple-mfd DT node.

You have to write DT bindings to be OS agnostic.

They *must* match the H/W.  Little else matters.

How we interpret those in Linux is flexible however.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-04 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-21 21:09 [PATCH v2 0/4] Driver support for RZ/V2M PWC Fabrizio Castro
2022-12-21 21:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] dt-bindings: mfd: Add " Fabrizio Castro
2022-12-22 18:09   ` Rob Herring
2023-01-03  8:29   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-03 16:29     ` Fabrizio Castro
2022-12-21 21:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mfd: Add RZ/V2M PWC core driver Fabrizio Castro
2023-01-03  8:36   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-03 12:05     ` Fabrizio Castro
2023-01-03 12:10       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-03 15:00         ` Fabrizio Castro
2023-01-03 12:52       ` Lee Jones
2023-01-03 15:46         ` Fabrizio Castro
2023-01-04 14:34           ` Lee Jones
2023-01-04 15:46             ` Fabrizio Castro
2023-01-04 16:05               ` Lee Jones [this message]
2022-12-21 21:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] gpio: Add support for the Renesas RZ/V2M PWC GPIOs Fabrizio Castro
2022-12-29  0:40   ` Linus Walleij
2022-12-21 21:09 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] power: reset: Add new driver for RZ/V2M PWC poweroff Fabrizio Castro
2023-01-02 19:22   ` Sebastian Reichel
2023-01-03  8:26   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-05 17:33     ` Fabrizio Castro

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