Re: [PATCH v2 09/15] dt-bindings: phy: qcom,qmp-pcie: rename current bindings

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>]

On 19/10/2022 07:35, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The current QMP PCIe PHY bindings are based on the original MSM8996
> binding which provided multiple PHYs per IP block and these in turn were
> described by child nodes.
> 
> Later QMP PCIe PHY blocks only provide a single PHY and the remnant
> child node does not really reflect the hardware.
> 
> The original MSM8996 binding also ended up describing the individual
> register blocks as belonging to either the wrapper node or the PHY child
> nodes.
> 
> This is an unnecessary level of detail which has lead to problems when
> later IP blocks using different register layouts have been forced to fit
> the original mould rather than updating the binding. The bindings are
> arguable also incomplete as they only the describe register blocks used
> by the current Linux drivers (e.g. does not include the per lane PCS
> registers).
> 
> In preparation for adding new bindings for SC8280XP which further
> bindings can be based on, rename the current schema file after IPQ8074,
> which was the first SoC added to the bindings after MSM8996 (which has
> already been split out), and add a reference to the SC8280XP bindings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
> ---
>  ...om,qmp-pcie-phy.yaml => qcom,ipq8074-qmp-pcie-phy.yaml} | 7 +++++--


Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof