[PATCH 3/3] dt-bindings: gpio: pcf857x: Convert to json-schema

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Thu May 27 08:04:19 PDT 2021


Hi Rob,

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:24 PM Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:23:47PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:04 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 9:54 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
> > > <geert+renesas at glider.be> wrote:
> > > > Convert the PCF857x-compatible I/O expanders Device Tree binding
> > > > documentation to json-schema.
> > > >
> > > > Document missing compatible values, properties, and gpio hogs.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> > >
> > > (...)
> > > > Perhaps the "ti,pcf8575" construct should be removed, and the few users
> > > > fixed instead?
> > >
> > > You would rather list it as deprecated I think?
> > > It is ABI...
> >
> > All DTS files use the "nxp,pcf8575" fallback, except for
> > arch/x86/platform/ce4100/falconfalls.dts.
> > The latter ain't working with Linux, as the Linux driver doesn't
> > match against "ti,pcf8575"...

Correction: i2c_device_id-based matching ignores the vendor part
of the compatible value.  One day this is gonna bite us...

> Perhaps can it just be removed?

I think so.  All other users of similar I2C GPIO expanders just
use the compatible values of the original NXP parts.

> > > > +patternProperties:
> > > > +  "^(hog-[0-9]+|.+-hog(-[0-9]+)?)$":
> > > > +    type: object
> > >
> > > But this is already in
> > > /dtschema/schemas/gpio/gpio-hog.yaml
> > > for nodename, isn't that where it properly belongs?
> > >
> > > I'm however confused here Rob will know what to do.
>
> This one is a bit odd.
>
> > If we leave this out, something still has to refer to it?
> > I see no other binding doing that...
>
> It's selected by 'gpio-hog' being present, but here you need to make
> sure that's the case.

OK. Fixed.

> And I would hope you could define the node name to be just 1 of the 2
> cases.

Yep, the latter is fine.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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