Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: qcom: sc7280: Move phy, perst to root port node

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 10/06/2025 15:15, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 6/2/25 3:01 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 08/05/2025 16:26, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>> On 4/23/25 5:37 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 10:49:26AM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya Chundru wrote:
>>>>> There are many places we agreed to move the wake and perst gpio's
>>>>> and phy etc to the pcie root port node instead of bridge node[1].
>>>>>
>>>>> So move the phy, phy-names, wake-gpio's in the root port.
>>>>> There is already reset-gpio defined for PERST# in pci-bus-common.yaml,
>>>>> start using that property instead of perst-gpio.
>>>>
>>>> Moving the properties will break existing kernels. If that doesn't 
>>>> matter for these platforms, say so in the commit msg.
>>>
>>> I don't think we generally guarantee *forward* dt compatibility though, no?
>> We do not guarantee, comment was not about this, but we expect. This DTS
>> is supposed and is used by other projects. There was entire complain
>> last DT BoF about kernel breaking DTS users all the time.
> 
> Yeah I get it.. we're in a constant cycle of adding new components and
> later coming to the conclusion that whoever came up with the initial
> binding had no clue what they're doing..
> 
> That said, "absens carens".. if users or developers of other projects
> don't speak up on LKML (which serves as the de facto public square for
> DT development), we don't get any feedback to take into account when
> making potentially breaking changes (that may have a good reason behind
> them). We get a patch from OpenBSD people every now and then, but it's
> a drop in the ocean.
> 
I don't understand what you are commenting on. Do you reject what I
asked for?

Best regards,
Krzysztof