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

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Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:32:15 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <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, Jun 26, 2019 at 7:02 PM Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

Ugg, sorry. I had another commit colliding with this in my tree. I've
fixed it now and it's in my dt/next branch.

Rob