[PATCH net-next] dt-bindings: net: Define properties at top-level

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Jun 27 12:03:01 PDT 2024


On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 9:05 AM Serge Semin <fancer.lancer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 03:54:41PM -0600, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> > Convention is DT schemas should define all properties at the top-level
> > and not inside of if/then schemas. That minimizes the if/then schemas
> > and is more future proof.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh at kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek,net.yaml |  28 +--
>
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/net/snps,dwmac.yaml   | 167 +++++++++---------
>
> For Synopsys DW MACs you can just move the PBL-properties constraints to
> the top-level schema part with no compatible-based conditional
> validation left. It's because the DMA PBL settings are available on all the
> DW MAC IP-cores (DW MAC, DW GMAC, DW QoS Eth, DW XGMAC, DW XLGMAC).
> Moreover the STMMAC driver responsible for the DW MAC device handling
> parses the pbl* properties for all IP-cores irrespective from the
> device compatible string.

That's definitely better. Will still need the TSO flag part though,
really, who cares if someone wants to set that on h/w without TSO...

>
> Alternatively you can just merge in the attached patch, which BTW you
> have already reviewed sometime ago.

Can you send that to the list since it changed from the last version.

Rob



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