From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
To: "Otto Pflüger" <otto.pflueger@abscue.de>,
"Lee Jones" <lee@kernel.org>, "Orson Zhai" <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
"Chunyan Zhang" <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>,
"Mark Brown" <broonie@kernel.org>,
"Sebastian Reichel" <sre@kernel.org>,
"Cixi Geng" <cixi.geng@linux.dev>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mfd: sprd-sc27xx: Move poweroff/reboot support to the parent MFD driver
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:33:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6286c547-2710-4854-a58f-8f3aa1dfc91e@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251110-sc27xx-mfd-poweroff-v2-0-fd5842e732fe@abscue.de>
CC Cixi.
On 2025/11/11 03:08, Otto Pflüger wrote:
> Registers for powering off the system are present in all SC27xx-series
> PMICs, although their locations vary between the specific PMIC models.
> On systems using these chips, the PMIC can always power off the system
> and is usually the only chip capable of doing this. Similarly, the PMICs
> (except for SC2731) contain a reset register that can always be used to
> restart the system.
>
> There is an existing sc27xx-poweroff driver, but it currently only works
> on SC2731 and is not probed anywhere since it is missing an OF match
> table and is not instantiated by the MFD driver. Reboot for SC2731 is
> implemented in drivers/spi/spi-sprd-adi.c, which is not really an
> appropriate location for PMIC-specific code.
>
> Since a separate device tree node for the poweroff support would not
> provide anything useful (see [1]) and passing platform-specific data
> between drivers is unnecessarily complex for such a simple feature,
> reimplement the poweroff functionality in the main MFD driver. While at
> it, add support for the newer SC2730 PMIC and its hardware reset
> register.
>
> Reboot is special because it requires storing the reboot mode. Move the
> existing code for this from the SPI bus driver to the MFD driver.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251002025344.GA2958334-robh@kernel.org/
>
> Signed-off-by: Otto Pflüger <otto.pflueger@abscue.de>
> ---
Overall, it looks reasonable to me, but I cannot test your patchset
right now due to the lack of hardware. Cixi (who is from Unisoc), could
you help test this patchset? Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-19 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-10 19:08 [PATCH v2 0/3] mfd: sprd-sc27xx: Move poweroff/reboot support to the parent MFD driver Otto Pflüger
2025-11-10 19:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: sprd-sc27xx: Integrate power off and reboot support Otto Pflüger
2025-11-20 15:30 ` Lee Jones
2025-11-23 17:34 ` Otto Pflüger
2025-11-26 15:36 ` Lee Jones
2026-01-08 10:15 ` Lee Jones
2025-11-10 19:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: sprd-adi: Remove code for storing the reboot mode Otto Pflüger
2025-11-10 19:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] power: reset: sc27xx: Drop unused driver Otto Pflüger
2025-11-19 6:33 ` Baolin Wang [this message]
2025-11-21 2:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] mfd: sprd-sc27xx: Move poweroff/reboot support to the parent MFD driver Cixi Geng
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