Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: Add configuration for PMI8950 peripheral

[Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@somainline.org>]

On 2022-11-06 20:37:24, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> On 2022-11-05 00:44:37, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> > On 2022-11-01 17:18:00, Luca Weiss wrote:
> > > From: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <kholk11@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > The PMI8950 features integrated peripherals like ADC, GPIO controller,
> > > MPPs and others.
> > > 
> > > [luca@z3ntu.xyz: remove pm8950, style changes for 2022 standards, add wled]
> > > Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <kholk11@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Weiss <luca@z3ntu.xyz>
> > > ---
> > > Changes since v2:
> > > * Pick up patch, and adjust as mentioned above sign-offs
> > > 
> > >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/pmi8950.dtsi | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 97 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/pmi8950.dtsi
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/pmi8950.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/pmi8950.dtsi
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..32d27e2187e3
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/pmi8950.dtsi
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > +// Copyright (c) 2019, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <kholk11@gmail.com>
> > > +
> > > +#include <dt-bindings/iio/qcom,spmi-vadc.h>
> > > +#include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/irq.h>
> > > +#include <dt-bindings/spmi/spmi.h>
> > > +
> > > +&spmi_bus {
> > > +	pmic@2 {
> > > +		compatible = "qcom,pmi8950", "qcom,spmi-pmic";
> > > +		reg = <0x2 SPMI_USID>;
> > > +		#address-cells = <1>;
> > > +		#size-cells = <0>;
> > > +
> > > +		pmi8950_vadc: adc@3100 {
> > > +			compatible = "qcom,spmi-vadc";
> > > +			reg = <0x3100>;
> > > +			interrupts = <0x2 0x31 0x0 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_RISING>;
> > > +			#address-cells = <1>;
> > > +			#size-cells = <0>;
> > > +			#io-channel-cells = <1>;
> > > +
> > > +			adc-chan@0 {
> > > +				reg = <VADC_USBIN>;
> > > +				qcom,pre-scaling = <1 4>;
> > > +				label = "usbin";
> > 
> > I've previously sent a patch with labels in the node name instead [1],
> > what's the preferred way nowadays?
> > 
> > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20220926190148.283805-4-marijn.suijten@somainline.org/
> 
> As it turns out that patch relied on the ADC5 driver propagating the DT
> node name (and label name if set) to IIO, which doesn't happen for the
> legacy VADC driver used here.  I sent an RFC to that effect, with a
> large discussion whether or not we should use node names, labels, or
> rely on hardcoded names in the drivers entirely.  The recent migration
> to fwnode made the node name include the `@xx` suffix which makes for
> unpleasant reading in sysfs, so that's at least one reason to have
> generic node names *and skip node names in these drivers altogether*.
> 
>     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20221106193018.270106-1-marijn.suijten@somainline.org/T/#u
> 
> In short: we may want to hold off changing these patches until a
> clear-cut decision has been made (but I think your patch here is the
> right approach in the end: generic node name *with label*, when the
> label is more clear than the name hardcoded in the driver).

We came to the conclusion in [1] that using labels is the way to go so
that the name doesn't get all mangled, then we can opt for generic node
names here as well.  This does mean I'll have to send a followup for [2]
and have to revise [3] again to use generic node names and labels.

- Marijn

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20221112162719.0ac87998@jic23-huawei/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20220926190148.283805-4-marijn.suijten@somainline.org/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20221111120156.48040-10-angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com/