[PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Fix snps,dwmac.yaml inheritance

[Rob Herring]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 03:48:33PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 26/11/2022 15:28, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 14:26:25 +0100
> > Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> On 25/11/2022 21:20, Samuel Holland wrote:
> >>> The sun8i-emac binding extends snps,dwmac.yaml, and should accept all
> >>> properties defined there, including "mdio", "resets", and "reset-names".
> >>> However, validation currently fails for these properties because the  
> >>
> >> validation does not fail:
> >> make dt_binding_check -> no problems
> >>
> >> Maybe you meant that DTS do not pass dtbs_check?
> > 
> > Yes, that's what he meant: If a board actually doesn't have Ethernet
> > configured, dt-validate complains. I saw this before, but didn't find
> > any solution.
> > An example is: $ dt-validate ... sun50i-a64-pinephone-1.2.dtb
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pinephone-1.2.dtb:
> >   ethernet at 1c30000: Unevaluated properties are not allowed ('resets', 'reset-names', 'mdio' were unexpected)
> >   From schema: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/allwinner,sun8i-a83t-emac.yaml
> > 
> > Why exactly is beyond me, but this patch removes this message.
> 
> I don't think this should be fixed like this. That's the problem of
> dtschema (not ignoring fully disabled nodes) and such patch only moves
> from one correct syntax to another correct syntax, which fixes dtschema
> problem, but changes nothing here.

Humm, it looks to me like the 'phy-mode' required in snps,dwmac.yaml 
causes the problem, but I can't get a minimized example to fail. 
Something in 'required' shouldn't matter. Definitely seems like an issue 
in the jsonschema package. I'll keep looking at it.

Rob