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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] Add SMBus features to Tegra I2C
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 09:56:28AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:04:30PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> > 09.12.2021 18:05, Akhil R пишет:
> > > Add support for SMBus Alert and SMBus block read functions to
> > > i2c-tegra driver
> > >
> > > Akhil R (2):
> > > dt-bindings: i2c: tegra: Add SMBus feature properties
> > > i2c: tegra: Add SMBus block read and SMBus alert functions
> > >
> > > .../devicetree/bindings/i2c/nvidia,tegra20-i2c.txt | 4 ++
> > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> > > 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> >
> > How this was tested? This series must include the DT patch. If there is
> > no real user in upstream for this feature, then I don't think that we
> > should bother at all about it.
>
> This is primarily used by a device that uses ACPI and the driver uses
> the firmware-agnostic APIs to get at this. However, it also means that
> the driver effectively provides this same support for DT via those APIs
> and therefore it makes sense to document that part even if there are no
> current users of the DT bits.

Then definitely a NAK.

> One big advantage of this is that it helps keep the ACPI and DT bindings
> in sync, and document this on the DT side also allows us to document the
> ACPI side of things where no formal documentation exists, as far as I
> know.

I have no bandwidth to review ACPI bindings and don't think the whole
use DT bindings in ACPI is a good idea either. If someone wants this to
be a thing, then they need to step up and review bindings.

Rob

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