[RFC] sti: Conflict in node name for an IP supporting both I2C and SPI

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 10:04:28PM +0100, Alain Volmat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in the STi platform [1], the I2C and SPI controllers are handled by the
> same IP, which can be configured in either one or the other mode.
> This leads to warnings during the DT build and I was wondering if you could
> give me some hints about how such situation should be handled since this
> concern DT warnings but also bindings and YAML.
> 
> In the SoC DT (dtsi), for each IP, there are 2 entries:
> 
> One for the I2C mode (implemented by the driver i2c/busses/i2c-st.c)
>                 i2c at 9840000 {
>                         compatible = "st,comms-ssc4-i2c";
>                         interrupts = <GIC_SPI 112 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>                         reg = <0x9840000 0x110>;
>                         clocks = <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_EXT2F_A9>;
>                         clock-names = "ssc";
>                         clock-frequency = <400000>;
>                         pinctrl-names = "default";
>                         pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_i2c0_default>;
>                         #address-cells = <1>;
>                         #size-cells = <0>;
> 
>                         status = "disabled";
>                 };
> 
> One for the SPI mode (implemented by the driver spi/spi-st-ssc4.c)
>                 spi at 9840000 {
>                         compatible = "st,comms-ssc4-spi";
>                         reg = <0x9840000 0x110>;
>                         interrupts = <GIC_SPI 112 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>                         clocks = <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_EXT2F_A9>;
>                         clock-names = "ssc";
>                         pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_spi0_default>;
>                         pinctrl-names = "default";
>                         #address-cells = <1>;
>                         #size-cells = <0>;
> 
>                         status = "disabled";
>                 };
> 
> So basically, there are 2 nodes, one for each mode, and enabling one or the
> other mode is done within the board DT.
> Since the address is the same, this obviously leads to warning during the build
> of the DT.
> 
> arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi:363.15-376.5: Warning (unique_unit_address): /soc/i2c at 9840000: duplicate unit-address (also used in node /soc/spi at 9840000)

How about making the compiler look at the status value. So long as
only zero or one is enabled, it should not be an issue. If you have
two or more nodes enabled for an address, then you want a warning or
error.

     Andrew