[PATCH v2 02/12] dt-bindings: net: starfive,jh7110-dwmac: Drop superfluous select

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Mon Oct 30 00:27:24 PDT 2023


On 29/10/2023 22:08, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> On 10/29/23 13:18, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 29/10/2023 05:27, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>>> The usage of 'select' doesn't seem to have any influence on how this
>>> binding schema is applied to the nodes, hence remove it.
>>>
>>
>> It has. Why do you think it doesn't? You should see new errors from
>> dwmac schema.
> 
> This patch came as a result of testing both variants (w/ and w/o
> 'select') with several different compatible strings and seeing
> consistent output:
> 
> - "starfive,jh7110-dwmac", "invalid";
> - "starfive,jh7110-dwmac";
> - "invalid", "snps,dwmac-5.20";
> - "invalid"
> 
> Did I miss something?

Testing all bindings? The select is there to prevent matching unrelated
bindings.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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