On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 05:14:13PM +0200, Michal Vokáč wrote: > Hi, > > this series adds support for a new member in our IOTA platform. > The board is based on the i.MX8MP SoC. The first two patches > add support for most of the board functionality except USB Type-C > port and some other minor things. > > [PATCH 3] adds new device tree binding for a Diodes Incorporated > PI5USB30213A Type-C Controller and [PATCH 4] enables that port on > the IOTA2 Lumpy board. > > We also wrote a driver for that Type-C port controller. I would like > to get that driver upstream as well but I expect it will take much > more iterations and effort to get it into mainline-ready shape so > I intentionally excluded it from this series. AFAIK it should not > be a problem to accept a device tree binding for a HW that does not > have a driver in the kernel yet. It's unusual but okay. It will be however more difficult for you - any changes in the binding in the future (when writing driver) will be rejected on basis of breaking ABI, even if Linux does not use that ABI. Best regards, Krzysztof
