linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: arm: Limit cpus schema to only check Arm 'cpu' nodes

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:02:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: arm: Limit cpus schema to only check Arm
 'cpu' nodes

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Rob Herring wrote:

> Matching on the 'cpus' node was a bad choice because the schema is
> incorrectly applied to non-Arm cpus nodes. As we now have a common cpus
> schema which checks the general structure, it is also redundant to do so
> in the Arm CPU schema.
> 
> The downside is one could conceivably mix different architecture's cpu
> nodes or have typos in the compatible string. The latter problem pretty
> much exists for every schema.

The RISC-V patch applies cleanly, but this one doesn't apply here on 
either master or next-20190626.  Is there a different base commit?


- Paul