[PATCH] dt-bindings: power: Add SiFive Domain Management controllers

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 09/05/2025 17:57, Conor Dooley wrote:
>>> +          - pattern: "^sifive,[ts]mc1$"
>>> +      - items:
>>> +          - {}
>>> +          - const: sifive,cmc3
>>> +          - const: sifive,cmc2
>>> +      - items:
>>> +          - {}
>>> +          - const: sifive,cmc2
>>
>> All of this is just unexpected. Why any compatible should come with
>> these?
> 
> It's also not quite correct either, right? Or may not be correct at
> least. It permits "xxx", "tmc2", "smc1" and "xxx", "smc2", "tmc1"
> which mean that the smc and tmc must be identical in terms of
> programming model.

Yep

> 
>> You need to use SoC specific compatibles.
> 
> I think there's some slack to provide here, sifive are upstreaming it in
> advance of there being customers (or customers ready to upstream) and this
> format allows us to accept bindings/drivers and the customer will have
> to add a soc-specific compatible in order to actually use these in a
> dts. I think it's better to accept something along these lines than

Sure, commit msg should explain that and probably these {} wildcards
should have comment as well.

> stall out until a customer decides to upstream their user. That said, I
> would expect this to come (as you mentioned above) with the driver.
> 

Best regards,
Krzysztof