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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 1/3] dt-bindings: mmc: Drop unused properties
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 09:29:20AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 30/08/2023 08:50, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 11:18:44AM +0800, William Qiu wrote:
> >> Due to the change of tuning implementation, it's no longer necessary to
> >> use the "starfive,sysreg" property in dts, so drop the relevant
> >> description in dt-bindings here.
> >
> > How does changing your software implantation invalidate a description of
> > the hardware?
> >
>
> Which is kind of proof that this syscon was just to substitute
> incomplete hardware description (e.g. missing clocks and phys). We
> should have rejected it. Just like we should reject them in the future.

:s I dunno what to do with this... I'm inclined to say not to remove it
from the binding or dts at all & only change the software.

> There are just few cases where syscon is reasonable. All others is just
> laziness. It's not only starfivetech, of course. Several other
> contributors do the same.

I'm not sure if laziness is fair, lack of understanding is usually more
likely.
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