Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: bus: simple-pm-bus: Make clocks and power-domains optional

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your patch!

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 2:49 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> Clocks and power domains are not required by the simple-pm-bus driver.
> There are buses with read-only registers for clocks and power domains
> that are always on.

The presence of clocks or power-domains properties is the only
distinguishing factor between simple-pm-bus and simple-bus, from a
DT point of view.  So if there has to be a distinguishment, the
properties should be required

If you don't have clocks and power-domains, you should use simple-bus.

> Even without clocks and power domains configured, simple-pm-bus is still
> different from simple-bus as simple-pm-bus enables runtime PM for the bus
> driver.

Which you need to have working Runtime PM for child devices, right? ;-)

This is not specific to DT, but to Linux.
One more reason to let Linux treat simple-pm-bus and simple-bus exactly
the same.  Linux handles the clocks and power-domains (if present)
transparently anyway, through PM Domains

> Let's update the binding accordingly as this remove the related warnings
> for dt_binding_check for omaps.
>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Cc: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
> Cc: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/simple-pm-bus.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/simple-pm-bus.yaml
> @@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ description: |
>    A Simple Power-Managed Bus is a transparent bus that doesn't need a real
>    driver, as it's typically initialized by the boot loader.
>
> -  However, its bus controller is part of a PM domain, or under the control
> -  of a functional clock.  Hence, the bus controller's PM domain and/or
> -  clock must be enabled for child devices connected to the bus (either
> -  on-SoC or externally) to function.
> +  However, its bus controller is typically part of a PM domain, or under
> +  the control of a functional clock.  Without PM domain or functional clock,
> +  it still enables runtime PM for the bus driver unlike "simple-bus".
>
>    While "simple-pm-bus" follows the "simple-bus" set of properties, as
>    specified in the Devicetree Specification, it is not an extension of
> @@ -43,10 +42,10 @@ properties:
>
>    clocks: true
>      # Functional clocks
> -    # Required if power-domains is absent, optional otherwise
> +    # Typically used if power-domains is absent
>
>    power-domains:
> -    # Required if clocks is absent, optional otherwise
> +    # Typically used if clocks is absent
>      minItems: 1
>
>  required:
> @@ -55,12 +54,6 @@ required:
>    - '#size-cells'
>    - ranges
>
> -anyOf:
> -  - required:
> -      - clocks
> -  - required:
> -      - power-domains
> -
>  additionalProperties: true
>
>  examples:

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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