DT dtc warnings

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Dec 14 11:00:07 PST 2017


On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On 14/12/2017 at 12:21:06 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Below is a current list of ARM boards with more than 40 dtc warnings
>> when building with W=1. There's a treewide patch in flight to fix some
>> unit-address warnings[1], so those aren't included here. The list is
>> grouped by maintainer. AT91, Exynos, and Allwinner continue to be at
>> the top of the list and have been for some time (though having
>> multiple boards for an SoC can cause lots of duplicated warnings).
>>
>> Please help fix these. More checks are being added[2].
>>
>
> For the at91 ones, IIRC, they are coming from the clock binding and we
> will have to break the ABI to fix it. This is not something we wanted to
> do before 4.14 but it will happen at some point.

Looks like they are just missing unit-address. How does adding a
unit-address break the ABI? Though, aren't you planning to change from
a node per clock to clock controller node(s)? If so, then fixing when
doing that is fine.

Rob



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