[PATCH v3 2/5] dt-bindings: power: reset: syscon-reboot-mode: allow supplies

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Wed Oct 7 14:24:32 PDT 2026


On Tue, Oct 06, 2026 at 08:02:40PM +0400, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> Whatever program that acts on a reboot mode runs before a full OS, so it
> may lack the capability to enable the regulators it depends on, and a
> reset that preserves the mode register generally leaves the regulators as
> the previously running system left them.
> 
> Allow a reboot mode node to name such supplies, so that they can be
> turned on while the mode is being requested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov <alchark at flipper.net>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.yaml       | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.yaml
> index 79ffc78b23ea..5ed70c87269e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.yaml
> @@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ patternProperties:
>    "^mode-.*$":
>      maxItems: 1
>  
> +  "^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*-supply$":
> +    description:
> +      Supply that has to be powered for whatever program acts on the mode.
> +      That could be a boot ROM with no access to regulators, and a warm reset
> +      leaves them as the previously running system left them and not necessarily
> +      what their expected out-of-reboot state is. Any supply described here is
> +      enabled when a mode is requested, and stays enabled.

Sorry, but no. If we allow this, then what next? clocks? power-domains? 
GPIO lines? The list is endless. Maybe if a not generic binding is used, 
but still pretty much pure configuration.

Rob



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