Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: dwmac: increase 'maxItems' for 'clocks', 'clock-names' properties

From: Christophe ROULLIER
Date: Thu Jan 09 2020 - 04:08:10 EST


On 15/11/2019 08:50, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:02:14PM +0000, Christophe ROULLIER wrote:
>> On 11/8/19 11:42 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 11:35:25AM +0100, Christophe Roullier wrote:
>>>> This change is needed for some soc based on snps,dwmac, which have
>>>> more than 3 clocks.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Roullier <christophe.roullier@xxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/snps,dwmac.yaml | 8 +++++++-
>>>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/snps,dwmac.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/snps,dwmac.yaml
>>>> index 4845e29411e4..376a531062c2 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/snps,dwmac.yaml
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/snps,dwmac.yaml
>>>> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ select:
>>>> - snps,dwmac-3.710
>>>> - snps,dwmac-4.00
>>>> - snps,dwmac-4.10a
>>>> + - snps,dwmac-4.20a
>>>> - snps,dwxgmac
>>>> - snps,dwxgmac-2.10
>>>>
>>>> @@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ properties:
>>>> - snps,dwmac-3.710
>>>> - snps,dwmac-4.00
>>>> - snps,dwmac-4.10a
>>>> + - snps,dwmac-4.20a
>>>> - snps,dwxgmac
>>>> - snps,dwxgmac-2.10
>>>>
>>>> @@ -87,7 +89,8 @@ properties:
>>>>
>>>> clocks:
>>>> minItems: 1
>>>> - maxItems: 3
>>>> + maxItems: 5
>>>> + additionalItems: true
>>> Those additional clocks should be documented
>>>
>>> Maxime
>> Hi Maxime,
>>
>> The problem it is specific to our soc, so is it possible to
>>
>> propose "optional clock" for 2 extras clocks in snps,dwmac.yaml
>>
>> and "official" description in soc yaml file (stm32-dwmac.yaml) ?
>>
>>   clocks:
>>     minItems: 1
>>     maxItems: 5
>>     additionalItems: true
>>     items:
>>       - description: GMAC main clock
>>       - description: Peripheral registers interface clock
>>       - description:
>>           PTP reference clock. This clock is used for programming the
>>           Timestamp Addend Register. If not passed then the system
>>           clock will be used and this is fine on some platforms.
>>
>> +      - description: optional clock
>>
>> +      - description: optional clock
> I guess we'd really need to figure out what those clocks are doing,
> they are probably helpful (and used, under a different name) by
> others.
>
> Hopefully the questions Rob asked will clear that out

Rob, do you have any ideas, suggestions ?

Thanks

> Maxime