[PATCH v2 6/8] reset: imx8mp-audiomix: Extend the driver usage

Daniel Baluta daniel.baluta at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 07:18:59 PDT 2025


On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM Frank Li <Frank.li at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 04:20:23AM -0700, Laurentiu Mihalcea wrote:
> > From: Laurentiu Mihalcea <laurentiu.mihalcea at nxp.com>
> >
> > Some NXP SoCs integrate one or more, per-subsystem, block control IPs,
> > which allow users to control the assertion and de-assertion of the
> > reset lines tied to some peripherals present in said subsystems. Some
> > examples of such SoCs include i.MX8MP with AUDIOMIX block control and
> > i.MX8ULP with SIM LPAV.
> >
> > Some of the aformentioned block control IPs exhibit a common pattern with
> > respect to the assertion and de-assertion of the reset lines. Namely, the
> > user is able to control the state of the reset line by toggling a bit from
> > one of the IP's registers.
> >
> > Linux can take advantage of this pattern and, instead of having one driver
> > for each block control IP, a single, more generic driver could be used.
> >
> > To allow this to happen, the previous approach, in which a single reset
> > map is used, is replaced by a per-driver approach, in which each auxiliary
> > device driver holds a reference to a certain reset map.
>
> Can you shorter your commit message?, basically, you just add
> imx8mp_reset_info for difference auxiliary_device_id.

It is always preferred to have commit messages trying to explain the context.
I have never heard anyone complaining that the commit message is too long :D.

Daniel.



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