[PATCH v4 2/3] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62l: add initial infrastructure

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Sat Apr 12 03:04:33 PDT 2025


On 11/04/2025 20:26, Bryan Brattlof wrote:
>>> +
>>> +		usb0_phy_ctrl: syscon at 45000 {
>>> +			compatible = "ti,am62-usb-phy-ctrl", "syscon";
>>> +			reg = <0x45000 0x4>;
>>> +			bootph-all;
>>> +		};
>>> +
>>> +		usb1_phy_ctrl: syscon at 45004 {
>>> +			compatible = "ti,am62-usb-phy-ctrl", "syscon";
>>> +			reg = <0x45004 0x4>;
>>
>> No, you do not get syscon per register. The entire point of syscon is to
>> collect ALL registers. Your device is the syscon, not a register.
>>
> 
> My understanding from [0] was that we would need to break this up into 
> smaller syscon nodes because the alternative would be to mark the entire 
> region as a syscon and every other node using it would need to use it's 
> base + offset which was kinda undesirable especially for the small 
> number of drivers that need data from this region.
> 
>     a-device {
>         clocks = <&epwm_tbclk 0>;


Hm? That's how you use the syscon, so how it can be undesirable?

Anyway, one register is not a device, so no device node per register.

In the link you provided I was repeating the same, so you got same
review in multiple places.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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