[PATCH] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: arm: Drop redundant node name restrictions
Rob Herring
robh at kernel.org
Fri Jan 2 13:47:10 PST 2026
On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 05:00:26PM +0530, Pankaj Patil wrote:
> Drop the redundant 'false' patterns so that allowed names
> ('msi-controller', 'gic-its', and 'interrupt-controller') work as intended
>
> GICv3 binding currently disallows child nodes named 'gic-its@' and
> 'interrupt-controller@' via patternProperties set to 'false'. However,
> these names are already permitted (though not preferred) by a subsequent
> pattern that applies the correct schema.
>
> Since the 'false' patterns take precedence, valid nodes such as
> 'gic-its@<addr>' and 'interrupt-controller@<addr>' fail dtbs_check with
> "False schema does not allow" errors
The reason it is done this way is so that we both check the child nodes
and warn on deprecated names.
Fix your .dts files ITS node name to be "msi-controller".
If the node names are fixed everywhere now, then we could just change
this to "^msi-controller@[0-9a-f]+$".
Rob
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