Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] dt-bindings: rtc: Convert snps,dw-apb-timer to DT schema

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 08:43:20PM +0300, Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru wrote:
> From: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> 
> Modern device tree bindings are supposed to be created as YAML-files
> in accordance with DT schema. This commit replaces Synopsys DW Timer
> legacy bare text binding with YAML file. As before the binding file
> states that the corresponding dts node is supposed to be compatible
> with generic DW APB Timer indicated by the "snps,dw-apb-timer"
> compatible string and to provide a mandatory registers memory range,
> one timer interrupt, either reference clock source or a fixed clock
> rate value. It may also have an optional APB bus reference clock
> phandle specified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
> 
> ---
> 
> I have doubts that this binding file belongs to the bindings/rtc
> directory seeing it's a pure timer with no rtc facilities like
> days/months/years counting and alarms. What about moving it to the
> "Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/" directory?

+1

> I also don't know who is the corresponding driver maintainer, so I added
> Daniel Lezcano to the maintainers schema. Any idea what email should be
> specified there instead?
> 
> Please also note, that "oneOf: - required: ..." pattern isn't working
> here. So if you omit any of the clock-related property the
> dt_binding_check procedure won't fail. Seeing the anyOf schema is working
> I suppose this happens due to the dtschema/lib.py script, which replaces
> the global oneOf with a fixup for the interrupts/interrupts-extended
> properties:
> 
> > def fixup_interrupts(schema):
> >    # Supporting 'interrupts' implies 'interrupts-extended' is also supported.
> >    if not 'interrupts' in schema['properties'].keys():
> >        return
> >
> >    # Any node with 'interrupts' can have 'interrupt-parent'
> >    schema['properties']['interrupt-parent'] = True
> >
> >    schema['properties']['interrupts-extended'] = { "$ref": "#/properties/interrupts" };
> >
> >    if not ('required' in schema.keys() and 'interrupts' in schema['required']):
> >        return
> >
> !>    # Currently no better way to express either 'interrupts' or 'interrupts-extended'
> !>    # is required. If this fails validation, the error reporting is the whole
> !>    # schema file fails validation
> !>    schema['oneOf'] = [ {'required': ['interrupts']}, {'required': ['interrupts-extended']} ]

I'll fix this. I'll have to check for 'oneOf' and if it exists then put 
it under an 'allOf'.

> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/rtc/dw-apb.txt        | 32 -------
>  .../bindings/rtc/snps,dw-apb-timer.yaml       | 88 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/dw-apb.txt
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/snps,dw-apb-timer.yaml

Otherwise, looks good.

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>