dt_binding_check report false alarm?

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Jun 8 07:57:42 PDT 2023


On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:02:41PM -0700, William Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems dt_binding_check reports a false error when run on this
> modified yaml. I picked this simple file just to demostrate this issue.
> Basically I made the interrupts and interrupt-names as optional
> properties. But when there are two interrupts present, then
> interrupt-names are required.  However in the example, I don't define
> interrupts and interrupt-name at all, the dt binding check reports error
> that interrupt-names are required:
> 
> make dt_binding_check DT_SCHEMA_FILES=Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.yaml
>   LINT    Documentation/devicetree/bindings
>   CHKDT   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/processed-schema.json
>   SCHEMA  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/processed-schema.json
>   DTEX    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.example.dts
>   DTC_CHK Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.example.dtb
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.example.dtb: crypto at 53fac000: 'interrupt-names' is a required property
> 	From schema: /home/william/projects/linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.yaml
> 
> This does not make sense to me as name is required only when there are
> two interrupts. Can someone familar with this please help to check if I
> miss anything in the yaml file or it is indeed a bug in binding check?
> 
> Thanks,
> William
> 
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.yaml     | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.yaml
> index 563a31605d2b..c37a3a64a78c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/fsl-imx-scc.yaml
> @@ -32,11 +32,18 @@ properties:
>    clock-names:
>      const: ipg
>  
> +allOf:
> +  - if:
> +      properties:
> +        interrupts:
> +          minItems: 2

This is a quirk of json-schema in that the 'if' will be true if the 
property is not present. Adding this to the 'if' should fix the problem:

required:
  - interrupts

> +    then:
> +      required:
> +        - interrupt-names
> +
>  required:
>    - compatible
>    - reg
> -  - interrupts
> -  - interrupt-names
>    - clocks
>    - clock-names
>  
> @@ -49,6 +56,4 @@ examples:
>          reg = <0x53fac000 0x4000>;
>          clocks = <&clks 111>;
>          clock-names = "ipg";
> -        interrupts = <49>, <50>;
> -        interrupt-names = "scm", "smn";
>      };
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 





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