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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:28:30 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Berg
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 wireless-next 7/7] dt-bindings: net: wireless: rt2800:
add
On 14/07/2025 21:44, Rosen Penev wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 02:04:48PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
>>> Add device-tree bindings for the RT2800 SOC wifi device found in older
>>> Ralink/Mediatek devices.
>>
>> Your subject was cut. Probably you wanted something like add "Realtek foo adapter" etc.
> Not sure I follow.
Your subject is oddly incomplete.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>> .../bindings/net/wireless/ralink,rt2880.yaml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ralink,rt2880.yaml
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ralink,rt2880.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ralink,rt2880.yaml
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..a92aedf6ba01
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/ralink,rt2880.yaml
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
>>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
>>> +%YAML 1.2
>>> +---
>>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/net/wireless/ralink,rt2880.yaml#
>>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>>> +
>>> +title: Ralink RT2880 wireless device
>>> +
>>> +maintainers:
>>> + - Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@...pl>
>>> +
>>> +description: |
>>> + This node provides properties for configuring RT2880 SOC wifi devices.
>>> + The node is expected to be specified as a root node of the device.
>>> +
>>> +allOf:
>>> + - $ref: ieee80211.yaml#
>>> +
>>> +properties:
>>> + compatible:
>>> + enum:
>>> + - ralink,rt2880-wifi
>>> +
>>> + reg:
>>> + maxItems: 1
>>> +
>>> + clocks:
>>> + maxItems: 1
>>> +
>>> + interrupts:
>>> + maxItems: 1
>>> +
>>> +required:
>>> + - compatible
>>> + - reg
>>
>> Why clocks are optional? SoC devices rarely work without a clock.
> Before this patchset the code was doing
>
> 25 rt2x00dev->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> 24 if (IS_ERR(rt2x00dev->clk))
> 23 rt2x00dev->clk = NULL;
That's driver. I am asking about hardware. Hardware rarely works without
clock. Just because some driver works is not a really a good proof,
because clock could be enabled by bootloader which would still prove my
point: hardware cannot work without clock.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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