linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] dt-bindings: rtc: Add ST m41t93

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Message-ID: <20250911-resolute-translucent-koala-1707dd@kuoka>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:43:09 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To: Akhilesh Patil <akhilesh@...iitb.ac.in>
Cc: alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, krzk+dt@...nel.org, robh@...nel.org, 
	conor+dt@...nel.org, skhan@...uxfoundation.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, 
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akhileshpatilvnit@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] dt-bindings: rtc: Add ST m41t93

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 07:22:33PM +0530, Akhilesh Patil wrote:
> Document DT bindings for m41t93 rtc which supports time, date,
> alarm, watchdog, square wave clock output provider, user sram
> and 8 bit timer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akhilesh Patil <akhilesh@...iitb.ac.in>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/rtc/st,m41t93.yaml    | 50 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/st,m41t93.yaml
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/st,m41t93.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/st,m41t93.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..bd593669cfa2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/st,m41t93.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/rtc/st,m41t93.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: ST M41T93 RTC and compatible
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org

Not much improved. This should be a person responsible/caring about this
hardware support in the kernel. Why would we want to take the binding if
no one cares about it?

> +
> +description: |

Do not need '|' unless you need to preserve formatting.

> +  ST M41T93 is spi based Real Time Clock (RTC) with time, date,
> +  alarm, watchdog, square wave clock output, 8 bit timer and
> +  7 bytes of user SRAM.

Best regards,
Krzysztof