[PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: watchdog: mediatek,mtk-wdt: add MT7988 watchdog and toprgu

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Fri Nov 10 12:21:10 PST 2023


On 10/11/2023 21:18, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 08:58:57PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> I am repeating myself... but I don't know how to put it other way. I did
>> not ask you to rewrite your driver. I asked to drop the change to
>> bindings, because it is entirely pointless.
>>
>> Drop this change, only this. No need to rewrite drivers, they stay the same.
> 
> Dropping this change (I'm assuming you are referring to the hunk adding
> include/dt-bindings/reset/mt7988-resets.h) and also not adding that
> header file using a seperate commit means that there won't be a header
> defining the reset names.
> 
> The result would be having to numerically reference the specific
> resets in the device tree.

Which is a problem because? Do you see bindings for IO space? For
interrupts? For hundreds of other values? No, because the value is not a
binding.

DT binding binds the driver and DTS. If you have nothing in the driver,
there is no binding.

> 
> This is, of course, possible, but I don't understand what the advantage
> would be.

I pinged you three times on email I expect answer and there is nothing.
You ignored the thread completely.

I am finishing with this thread till you start answering emails.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list