[PATCH v5 1/4] media: dt-bindings: rockchip,vdec: Mark reg-names required for RK35{76,88}

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le mercredi 04 mars 2026 à 23:00 +0200, Cristian Ciocaltea a écrit :
> The Rockchip Video Decoder driver expects reg-names to be mandatory for
> RK3576 and RK3588 SoCs, however the binding does not currently require
> the use of them.
> 
> As a consequence, driver would fail to probe with a hypothetical
> devicetree that doesn't provide the reg-names for these SoCs, but which
> is otherwise a perfectly valid DT from the binding perspective.
> 
> Update the binding and make reg-names required for the aforementioned
> SoCs.  While this change introduces an ABI break, the expected impact on
> potential users would be minimal, if any, since the old SoCs are
> unaffected, while the video decoder support for these newer variants in
> mainline driver and devicetrees hasn't been released yet.
> 
> Moreover, this is also a prerequisite for a subsequent binding update
> introducing an alternative reg-names order, according to the
> address-based listing in the vendor's datasheet.
> 
> Reported-by: Conor Dooley <conor at kernel.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260227-urologist-gratitude-7984733f2d41@spud/
> Fixes: c6ffb7e1fb90 ("media: dt-bindings: rockchip: Document RK3588 Video Decoder bindings")
> Fixes: a5c4a6526476 ("media: dt-bindings: rockchip: Add RK3576 Video Decoder bindings")
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea at collabora.com>

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com>

To Heiko, I'm picking this for 7.1, along with the order changes, which are more
or less cosmetic considering that names are required by this patch. At least it
show that driver cannot do anything else then picking these by name for
compatibility reason.

Nicolas

> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/rockchip,vdec.yaml | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/rockchip,vdec.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/rockchip,vdec.yaml
> index 809fda45b3bd..dc4ebb50b316 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/rockchip,vdec.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/rockchip,vdec.yaml
> @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ allOf:
>            minItems: 5
>          reset-names:
>            minItems: 5
> +      required:
> +        - reg-names
>      else:
>        properties:
>          reg:
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