[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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