linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v13 1/3] dt-bindings: soc: sophgo: add RTC support for Sophgo CV1800 series

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Message-ID: <a691fe4864debf7592010bc892066beb439c1740.camel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:29:37 +0200
From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...il.com>
To: Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@...il.com>, sophgo@...ts.linux.dev, 
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jingbao Qiu <qiujingbao.dlmu@...il.com>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 
 Krzysztof Kozlowski	 <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley
 <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Chen Wang	 <unicorn_wang@...look.com>, Alexandre
 Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,  Arnd Bergmann	 <arnd@...db.de>,
 Yangyu Chen <cyy@...self.name>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/3] dt-bindings: soc: sophgo: add RTC support for
 Sophgo CV1800 series

Hi Inochi!

On Mon, 2025-04-07 at 09:09 +0800, Inochi Amaoto wrote:
> > Add RTC devicetree binding for Sophgo CV1800 series SoC. The device is
> > called RTC, but contains control registers of other HW blocks in its
> > address space, most notably of Power-on-Reset (PoR) module, DW8051 IP
> > (MCU core), accompanying SRAM, hence putting it in SoC subsystem.
> > 
> 
> I think this is a mfd device, so why not moving this into mfd subsystem?

MFD is by far the most tricky subsystem to get into [1] ;-)
SOC looks much more realistic [2]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250306003211.GA8350@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-loud-mauve-coyote-1eefbb@krzk-bin/

-- 
Alexander Sverdlin.