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Message-ID: <5b39c702-c74e-4cd5-accf-b6b8792e65b2@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:37:32 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To: Dharma.B@...rochip.com, sam@...nborg.org, bbrezillon@...nel.org,
 maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com, mripard@...nel.org, tzimmermann@...e.de,
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 krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org, conor+dt@...nel.org,
 Nicolas.Ferre@...rochip.com, alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com,
 claudiu.beznea@...on.dev, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: mfd: atmel,hlcdc: Convert to DT schema
 format

On 17/01/2024 03:22, Dharma.B@...rochip.com wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> On 10/01/24 11:31 pm, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe
>>
>> On 10/01/2024 11:25, Dharma Balasubiramani wrote:
>>> Convert the atmel,hlcdc binding to DT schema format.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dharma Balasubiramani <dharma.b@...rochip.com>
>>> ---
>>>   .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel,hlcdc.yaml  | 106 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>   .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt   |  56 ---------
>>>   2 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
>>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel,hlcdc.yaml
>>>   delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel,hlcdc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel,hlcdc.yaml
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..555d6faa9104
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel,hlcdc.yaml
>>
>> This looks not tested, so limited review follows:
> I acknowledge that I didn't test the patches individually. I appreciate 
> your understanding. Taken care in v2.
>>
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
>>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
>>> +# Copyright (C) 2024 Microchip Technology, Inc. and its subsidiaries
>>> +%YAML 1.2
>>> +---
>>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mfd/atmel,hlcdc.yaml#
>>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>>> +
>>> +title: Atmel's HLCDC (High LCD Controller) MFD driver
>>
>> Drop "MFD driver" and rather describe/name the hardware. MFD is Linux
>> term, so I really doubt that's how this was called.
> Done.
>>
>>> +
>>> +maintainers:
>>> +  - Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>
>>> +  - Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
>>> +  - Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>
>>> +
>>> +description: |
>>> +  Device-Tree bindings for Atmel's HLCDC (High LCD Controller) MFD driver.
>>
>> Drop
> Done.
>>
>>> +  The HLCDC IP exposes two subdevices:
>>> +  # a PWM chip: see ../pwm/atmel,hlcdc-pwm.yaml
>>> +  # a Display Controller: see ../display/atmel/atmel,hlcdc-dc.yaml
>>
>> Rephrase to describe hardware. Drop redundant paths.
> Sure, I will truncate this to "subdevices: a PWM chip and a display 
> controller." & drop the |.
> 
> I added description about those two subdevices below.

Then why do you still keep there comments? # is a comment.
..

> in v3.
>>
>>> +
>>> +  hlcdc-display-controller:
>>
>> Does anything depend on the name? If not, then just display-controller
> Got an error "'hlcdc-display-controller' does not match any of the 
> regexes: 'pinctrl-[0-9]+'" so I retained it in v2,but as conor advised 
> to have node names generic and we can easily adopt, I will modify it in v3.

That's not a dependency. I was talking about any users of the binding.
User of a binding is for example: Linux kernel driver, other open-source
projects, out-of-tree projects.


Best regards,
Krzysztof