linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 02/12] dt-bindings: net: starfive,jh7110-dwmac: Drop superfluous select

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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:25:34 +0200
From:   Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@...labora.com>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@...il.dk>,
        Samin Guo <samin.guo@...rfivetech.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/12] dt-bindings: net: starfive,jh7110-dwmac: Drop
 superfluous select

On 10/30/23 09:27, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 29/10/2023 22:08, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>> On 10/29/23 13:18, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 29/10/2023 05:27, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>>>> The usage of 'select' doesn't seem to have any influence on how this
>>>> binding schema is applied to the nodes, hence remove it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It has. Why do you think it doesn't? You should see new errors from
>>> dwmac schema.
>>
>> This patch came as a result of testing both variants (w/ and w/o
>> 'select') with several different compatible strings and seeing
>> consistent output:
>>
>> - "starfive,jh7110-dwmac", "invalid";
>> - "starfive,jh7110-dwmac";
>> - "invalid", "snps,dwmac-5.20";
>> - "invalid"
>>
>> Did I miss something?
> 
> Testing all bindings? The select is there to prevent matching unrelated
> bindings.

Indeed, my bad, as I've been using DT_SCHEMA_FILES to restrict the scope
during initial testing and missed to include later other schemas for an
extended validation (note that since [1] it's possible to specify a list
of file paths separated by ':').

Will drop this in v3.

[1] 25eba1598c8e ("dt-bindings: Fix multi pattern support in
DT_SCHEMA_FILES")

Thanks,
Cristian