Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] dt-bindings: regulator: qcom,spmi-regulator: Convert to dtschema

From: Robert Marko
Date: Wed May 18 2022 - 10:00:16 EST


On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 15:34, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 18/05/2022 15:25, Robert Marko wrote:
> >> I think we misunderstood each other. Old bindings indeed did not require
> >> the interrupts, although if present they should be always defined.
> >> Therefore here you should specify number of items and their names.
> >
> > Yeah, I think we are misunderstanding each other.
> >
> > Old text-based bindings specified the interrupts, but no naming or
> > number was enforced,
> > so I looked into the driver to see what is going on.
> > Only pm8941 has interrupts defined in the driver and DTS, so I added
> > those based on compatible
> > matching, the same as with supplies.
> > My logic was that it was only valid for interrupts to be described if
> > PM8941 was used as describing
> > interrupts for other regulator models will do nothing.
>
> Indeed, you're right, thanks for explanation. Your patch in such case is
> correct way of conversion but allows any number of interrupts with any
> names, so it's to relaxed. Maybe then better go to previous version,
> where these interrupts were defined only for one variant. For other
> variants they would fail on as unevaluated?

Yeah, that was my intention with not having interrupts as the generic property.
I will remove them as generic property and only allow them per
compatible, cause I tested
adding interrupts to a PMIC DTS that does not allow them and make
dtbs_check will
warn about those being unevaluated.

Regards,
Robert
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof