Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:16:32 +0200 | From | Alexandre Belloni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: rtc: pcf8523: add DSM pm option for battery switch-over |
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On 27/07/2020 17:55:50+0200, Jon Nettleton wrote: > > So, can we please have that discussion, it is pertinent to this patch. > > > > Thinking about this some more, I believe whether or not an IOCTL > interface is in the works or needed is irrelevant. This patch > describes the hardware and how it is designed and the topic of > discussion is if we need a simple boolean state, or if we need > something that could be used to support dynamic configuration in the > future. I would rather make this decision now rather than keep > tacking on boolean config options, or revisit a bunch of device-tree > changes.
Something that would describe the hardware is a property telling whether the filter is present on VDD, not a property selecting DSM. The driver can then chose to avoid standard mode when needed.
-- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
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