[PATCH] dt-bindings: net: altr,socfpga-stmmac.yaml: add minItems to iommus

Matthew Gerlach matthew.gerlach at altera.com
Wed Jul 9 15:23:58 PDT 2025



On 7/8/25 11:54 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 07/07/2025 17:44, Matthew Gerlach wrote:
> > Add missing 'minItems: 1' to iommus property of the Altera SOCFPGA SoC
> > implementation of the Synopsys DWMAC.
>
> Why? Explain why you are doing thing, not what you are doing. What is
> obvious which makes entire two-line commit msg redundant and useless.
This conversion to yaml was a merge of two separate conversions from 
Ding Nguyen and myself plus some resolved issues highlighted by Rob 
Herring, but I missed the minItems:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250626234816.GB1398428-robh@kernel.org/

>
> Original binding had no iommus and referenced commit does not explain
> why they appeared during conversion in the first place.
The text version of the binding was created before the device trees for 
the Agilex family, which do support iommus, were accepted into the kernel.
>
> > 
> > Fixes: 6d359cf464f4 ("dt-bindings: net: Convert socfpga-dwmac bindings to yaml")
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach at altera.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/altr,socfpga-stmmac.yaml | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/altr,socfpga-stmmac.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/altr,socfpga-stmmac.yaml
> > index c5d8dfe5b801..ec34daff2aa0 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/altr,socfpga-stmmac.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/altr,socfpga-stmmac.yaml
> > @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ properties:
> >        - const: ptp_ref
> >  
> >    iommus:
> > +    minItems: 1
> >      maxItems: 2
>
> Why this has to be flexible on given SoC? This is weird. Same hardware
> differs somehow?
Dinh can you comment on this binding from 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250624191549.474686-1-dinguyen@kernel.org/?

>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof




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