[PATCH 2/2] arm: AT91: fix DT duplicate node name
Michał Mirosław
mirq-linux at rere.qmqm.pl
Wed Oct 4 14:20:34 PDT 2017
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 06:53:30PM +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> On 29/08/2017 at 22:08, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > Fix following warning at bootup:
> >
> > device-tree: Duplicate name in fb at 0x00500000, renamed to "display#1"
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux at rere.qmqm.pl>
> > ---
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9m10g45ek.dts | 48 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9m10g45ek.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9m10g45ek.dts
> > index 9cf1f5163fbd..272af5867403 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9m10g45ek.dts
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9m10g45ek.dts
> > @@ -223,30 +223,6 @@
> > fb0: fb at 0x00500000 {
> > display = <&display0>;
> > status = "okay";
> > -
> > - display0: display {
>
> Michał, thanks for your patch.
>
> Actually the DT binding requires this:
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/atmel,lcdc.txt
>
> So it's somehow a bigger issue.
> Moreover, several boards have exactly the same arrangement than the
> at91sam9m10g45ek, so you probably need to modify them all at the same time.
>
> After a brief look at drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c it seems that
> the name of the node is not so much important, so we can modify it
> (something like display0: lcd-display {}) .
>
> I suggest that you modify the binding, the board files affected and
> re-submit a patch.
It looks like the binding documentation is wrong. The driver code does
of_parse_phandle(np, "display", 0);
so it expects a phandle, not a node.
Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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