[PATCH] ARM: dts: vexpress: Replace '_' with '-' in node names

Rob Herring robh+dt at kernel.org
Thu May 10 07:05:02 PDT 2018


On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 5:51 AM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 09/05/18 22:14, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com> wrote:
>>> The latest DTC throws warnings for character '_' in the node names.
>>>
>>> Warning (node_name_chars_strict): /sysreg at 10000/sys_led: Character '_' not recommended in node name
>>> Warning (node_name_chars_strict): /sysreg at 10000/sys_mci: Character '_' not recommended in node name
>>> Warning (node_name_chars_strict): /sysreg at 10000/sys_flash: Character '_' not recommended in node name
>>>
>>> The general recommendation is to use character '-' for all the node names.
>>> This patch fixes the warnings following the recommendation.
>>>
>>> Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau at arm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi | 6 +++---
>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi
>>> index 7b8ff5b3b912..58e73131ecef 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi
>>> @@ -77,19 +77,19 @@
>>>                                         compatible = "arm,vexpress-sysreg";
>>>                                         reg = <0x010000 0x1000>;
>>>
>>> -                                       v2m_led_gpios: sys_led {
>>> +                                       v2m_led_gpios: sys-led {
>>
>> Except this is a gpio-controller so it should have 'gpio' for its node
>> name. (I have a dtc check written for that, but there are too many
>> false positives.)
>>
>
> True, sorry I didn't look at it in detail.
>
>> But then you have 3 of them and no addressing, so you need to add reg
>> property (with the register's offset and size) and unit-address.
>>
>
> Indeed. I had a look at the history but couldn't gather much. All I
> could get is that this is one of those weird mix of all functionality on
> ARM Ltd platforms which fits no subsystem. Me and Lorenzo has similar
> issue on TC2 platform. Pawel seem to have plumed this system control
> registers block into MFD and GPIO long back.
>
>> I'm surprised Linus W accepted these a GPIO when they are not really
>> general purpose, but then lots of things slip in.
>>
>
> I assume all these happened in early days of DT.
>
> I will drop this for now. I will take a look if these nodes can be made
> better to align with standard gpio controller nodes.

Why not just make the changes I suggested? It shouldn't break
anything. You can add reg property even though the kernel doesn't use
it.

Rob



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