[PATCH] dt-bindings: mfd: aspeed: Drop 'oneOf' for pinctrl node

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Wed May 1 05:39:48 PDT 2024


On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 7:40 PM Andrew Jeffery
<andrew at codeconstruct.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2024-04-30 at 12:25 -0500, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> > The use of 'oneOf' to include 1 of 3 possible child node schemas results
> > in error messages containing the actual error message(s) for the correct
> > SoC buried in the tons of error messages from the 2 schemas that don't
> > apply. It also causes the pinctrl schema to be applied twice as it will
> > be applied when the compatible matches.
> >
> > All that's really needed in the parent schema is to ensure one of the
> > possible compatible strings is present in the pinctrl node so that its
> > schema will be applied separately.
>
> Thanks, I think it improves the readability of intent in the binding as
> well.
>
> To understand the impact better I grabbed the patch and diffed the
> output of `make CHECK_DTBS=y aspeed/aspeed-ast2600-evb.dtb` before and
> after applying it, but there was no significant difference in output.
> Should that not demonstrate the errors being cleaned up? If not, what
> should?

Try it on one of the new boards posted in the last 1-2 days. It showed
up on my testing dtbs_check on patches. I didn't send a report because
there was so much noise in it.

Rob



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