Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: pwm: mediatek,mt2712: add compatible for MT7988

Conor Dooley
2024-02-14T10:06:56Z

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:27:54AM +0100, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Il 14/02/24 07:34, Rafał Miłecki ha scritto:
> > On 13.02.2024 19:18, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 05:46:32PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > > > From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> > > >
> > > > MT7988 has on-SoC controller that can control up to 8 PWMs.
> > >
> > > I see a binding and a dts patch, but no driver patch, how come?
> >
> > I believe that to avoid cross-trees patchsets (which are sometimes
> > tricky for maintainers) there are two ways of submiting such changes:
> > 1. dt-binding + driver; then (separately) DTS
> > 2. dt-binding + DTS; then (separately) driver
> >
> > I chose later in this case as my personal priority right now is to deal
> > with all MediaTek DTS files.
> >
> > Is that wrong or unacceptable?
> >
>
> It's not wrong but it's partially unacceptable, at least on my side.

> I want to put emphasis on sending the binding with the driver, as this allows
> for a better review on everyone's side because we do see the full picture and
> we can give better advices: in this case, I'm not sure whether adding a new
> compatible for MT7988 in an enum is a good idea, as the compatible string may
> be shared with one of the *eleven* SoCs that are supported in the PWM driver,
> meaning that (hardware speaking!) the PWM controller in 7988 might be the same
> as the one in mt1234.

Re-ordering to make my reply make more sense...

> In my opinion (and I believe many do agree with me), sending the binding along
> with the driver is the right choice, and if you also want to include the dts
> that is also appreciated: series can go through multiple maintainers applying
> subsets - it's ok to do.

Ye, either of those two makes my life a lot easier. I can then at least
go and check the driver patch to see if things match up. In this case, I
would want to check that the driver requires changes to support this
device, given the commit message mentions nothing about the difference
between this device and others. I'd still probably request that the
commit message be improved to explain the lack of a fallback, but at
least I would be clear about what I want and could provide a conditional
Ack.

If you're not sending the bindings patch with the driver, there's an
extra onus on you to explain exactly what makes this device incompatible
with the other devices in the enum, although in an ideal world it'd make
no difference and every bindings patch would contain that information.

> >
> > > Also, what makes this incompatibly different with the other devices in
> > > the binding, like the 8183?
> >
> > It can control 8 PWMs unlike any other SoC block except for MT2712.
> > It uses different registers than MT2712 thought.

Put this information in your commit message next time :)

Cheers,
Conor.

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