linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] regulator: dt-bindings: Add Allwinner D1 LDOs

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Message-ID: <64913eef-8b4f-7617-578b-53ddc22bd06e@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:46:11 +0300
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] regulator: dt-bindings: Add Allwinner D1 LDOs

On 17/08/2022 11:15, Samuel Holland wrote:
>>> +    audio-codec@...0000 {
>>> +        compatible = "simple-mfd", "syscon";
>>
>> This cannot be on its own. Both require device specific compatible.
> 
> Again, the device-specific compatible does not exist, because the binding for
> the audio codec has not been written (and it will be quite nontrivial).
> 
> So I can:
>   1) Leave the example as-is until the audio codec binding gets written,
>      and fill in the specific compatible at that time.
>   2) Remove the example, with the reasoning that the example really
>      belongs with the MFD parent (like for the other regulator). Then
>      there will be no example until the audio codec binding is written.
>   3) Drop the analog LDOs from this series entirely, and some parts
>      of the SoC (like thermal monitoring) cannot be added to the DTSI
>      until the audio codec binding is written.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> The same question applies for the D1 SoC DTSI, where I use this same construct.
> 
> (And technically this does validate with the current schema.)

BTW, it validates only because of limitation in DT schema. Such
combination is not allowed and I wonder if we can make the schema
stricter...

Best regards,
Krzysztof