[PATCH 5/6] arm64: dts: ls1028a-qds: make the QIXIS CPLD use the simple-mfd-i2c.c driver
Ioana Ciornei
ioana.ciornei at nxp.com
Tue May 6 07:21:57 PDT 2025
On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 09:04:03AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 06:36:33PM GMT, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> > From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>
> >
> > The MDIO mux on the LS1028A-QDS never worked in mainline. The device
> > tree was submitted as-is, and there is a downstream driver for the QIXIS
> > FPGA:
> >
> > https://github.com/nxp-qoriq/linux/blob/lf-6.12.y/drivers/soc/fsl/qixis_ctrl.c
> >
> > That driver is very similar to the already existing drivers/mfd/simple-mfd-i2c.c,
> > and the hardware works with the simple-mfd-i2c driver, so there isn't
> > any reason to upstream the other one.
> >
> > Adapt the compatible string and child node format of the FPGA node, so
> > that the simple-mfd-i2c driver accepts it.
>
> Why do you break the users based on some driver differences? Fix the
> drivers, not the DTS.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei at nxp.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts | 9 +++++----
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts
> > index 0bb2f28a0441..58b54d521d75 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts
> > @@ -338,17 +338,18 @@ sgtl5000: audio-codec at a {
> > };
> >
> > fpga at 66 {
> > - compatible = "fsl,ls1028aqds-fpga", "fsl,fpga-qixis-i2c",
> > - "simple-mfd";
> > + compatible = "fsl,ls1028a-qds-qixis-i2c";
>
> This breaks all the existing users. NAK.
Using a mainline kernel, this DT node was never used or probed by a
driver since that driver was never submitted. I am not breaking any user
of the mainline kernel.
>
> > reg = <0x66>;
> > + #address-cells = <1>;
> > + #size-cells = <0>;
> >
> > - mux: mux-controller {
> > + mux: mux-controller at 54 {
>
> This was never tested. Your binding says something else.
Will fix the binding in v2.
Ioana
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