linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] dt-bindings: PCI: Add bindings for Brcmstb endpoint device voltage regulators

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Message-ID: <20210408163345.GO4516@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 8 Apr 2021 17:33:45 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jim Quinlan <jim2101024@...il.com>,
        linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@...adcom.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2711/BCM2835 ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] dt-bindings: PCI: Add bindings for Brcmstb
 endpoint device voltage regulators

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 11:20:16AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 02:25:49PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 1:32 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:47 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > > > > No great problem with having these in the controller node (assming it
> > > > > accurately describes the hardware) but I do think we ought to also be
> > > > > able to describe these per slot.

> PCIe is effectively point to point, so there's only 1 slot unless 
> there's a PCIe switch in the middle. If that's the case, then it's all 
> more complicated.

So even for PCIe that case exists, and it's not entirely clear to me
that this is all definitively PCIe specific.

> > o After some deliberation, RobH preferred that the voltage regulators
> > should go into the PCIe subnode device's DT node.

> IIRC, that's because you said there isn't a standard slot.

I recall some message in the thread that said both cases exist even with
this specific system.

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