Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] dt-bindings: PCI: renesas,pci-rcar-gen2: Add device tree support for r9a06g032

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Krzysztof,

On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 10:51 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29/04/2022 15:41, Herve Codina wrote:
> > Add internal PCI bridge support for the r9a06g032 SOC. The Renesas
> > RZ/N1D (R9A06G032) internal PCI bridge is compatible with the one
> > present in the R-Car Gen2 family.
> > Compared to the R-Car Gen2 family, it needs three clocks instead of
> > one.
> >
> > The 'resets' property for the RZ/N1 family is not required since
> > there is no reset-controller support yet for the RZ/N1 family.
>
> This should not be a reason why a property is or is not required. Either
> this is required for device operation or not. If it is required, should
> be in the bindings. Otherwise what are you going to do in the future?
> Add a required property breaking the ABI?

The problem is that there are no bindings for the reset controller
(actually the reset controller feature of the system-controller) yet.
Yeah, we can just add #reset-cells = <1> to the system-controller
device node, but we cannot add the actual resets properties to the
consumers, until the actual cell values are defined.

> > Signed-off-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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