[PATCH 1/8] mmc: dt: pwrseq-simple: Invent power-off-delay-us

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri May 12 13:03:00 PDT 2017


On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:21:10PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> During power off, after the GPIO pin has been asserted, some devices like
> the Wifi chip from TI, Wl18xx, needs a delay before the host continues with
> clock gating and turning off regulators as to follow a graceful shutdown
> sequence.
> 
> Therefore invent an optional power-off-delay-us DT binding for
> mmc-pwrseq-simple, to allow us to support this constraint.

Do you really need this to be programmable per device. A delay is not 
going to hurt devices that don't need it.

Sorry, but this is exactly what I don't like about "simple" bindings: 
adding one property at a time.

Rob



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