linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: dma: snps,dw-axi-dmac: Group tuples in snps properties

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Date:   Thu, 2 Dec 2021 11:04:16 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@...opsys.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Heng Sia <jee.heng.sia@...el.com>,
        dmaengine <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: dma: snps,dw-axi-dmac: Group tuples in snps properties

Hi Rob,

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 11:44 PM Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:19:18PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > To improve human readability and enable automatic validation, the tuples
> > in "snps,block-size" and "snps,priority" properties should be grouped
> > using angle brackets.
>
> For these, the tools should allow either way. Where are you seeing an
> error?

Good to know. I'm not seeing any errors.

> I tried to rationalize which way should be 'correct' and gave up. I
> think bracketing only makes sense for matrix and phandle+arg cases.

That makes sense.  And "interrupts" is special, because it's really a
short-hand for "interrupts-extended", with the phandle specified by
"interrupt-parent" at the same or a higher level.

Hence I'll drop this patch.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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