[PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: firmware: arm,scmi: Document arm,no-completion-irq property

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Jan 19 09:02:58 PST 2026


On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 04:53:45PM +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 02:02:28AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Document new property arm,no-completion-irq . This optional property
> > is intended for hardware that does not generate completion interrupts
> > and can be used to unconditionally enable forced polling mode of
> > operation.
> > 
> > With this property set, such implementations which do not generate
> > interrupts can be interacted with, until they are fixed to generate
> > interrupts properly.
> > 
> > Note that, because the original base protocol exchange also requires
> > some sort of completion mechanism, it is not possible to query SCMI
> > itself for this property and it must be described in DT. While this
> > does look a bit like policy, the SCMI provider is part of the
> > hardware, hence DT.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh at kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at mailbox.org>
> > ---
> > Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com>
> > Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli at broadcom.com>
> > Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> > Cc: arm-scmi at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > Cc: linux-renesas-soc at vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> > V2: s at mean@&t and limit poll transport to mailbox/shmem only
> > V3: - Reformat the commit message, expand property description to
> >       explicitly spell out this is hardware description.
> >     - Rename property from arm,poll-transport to arm,no-completion-irq
> > V4: - Update first paragraph of commit message and property description
> >     - Add RB from Rob
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml         | 10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> > index be817fd9cc34b..d06cca9273c48 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> > @@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ properties:
> >        this platform. If set, the value should be non-zero.
> >      minimum: 1
> >  
> > +  arm,no-completion-irq:
> > +    type: boolean
> > +    description:
> 
> Shouldn't these two points have to be swapped as per Sudeep and Rob
> suggestions ?
> 
>     description:
> 	....
>     type: boolean
> 

I was just referring to the points covered under the `description` and not
the order of `type` and `description`. I am not sure if there is any such
requirement as well. I am happy with this version, but this needs to wait
for the merge window following the next as I have already sent the PR to
SoC teams.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



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