[PATCH v4 10/16] dt-bindings: phy: qcom,qmp-pcie: rename current bindings

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Fri Oct 28 14:57:01 PDT 2022


On 28/10/2022 09:35, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The current QMP PCIe PHY bindings are based on the original MSM8996
> binding which provided multiple PHYs per IP block and these in turn were
> described by child nodes.
> 
> Later QMP PCIe PHY blocks only provide a single PHY and the remnant
> child node does not really reflect the hardware.
> 
> The original MSM8996 binding also ended up describing the individual
> register blocks as belonging to either the wrapper node or the PHY child
> nodes.
> 
> This is an unnecessary level of detail which has lead to problems when
> later IP blocks using different register layouts have been forced to fit
> the original mould rather than updating the binding. The bindings are
> arguable also incomplete as they only the describe register blocks used
> by the current Linux drivers (e.g. does not include the per lane PCS
> registers).
> 
> In preparation for adding new bindings for SC8280XP which further
> bindings can be based on, rename the current schema file after IPQ8074,
> which was the first SoC added to the bindings after MSM8996 (which has
> already been split out), and add a reference to the SC8280XP bindings.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro at kernel.org>
> ---

Also missing cc devicetree list.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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