Re: [PATCH v1 02/16] dt-bindings: memory: mediatek: Update condition for mt8195 smi node

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>]

On 06/07/2022 15:48, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/07/2022 14:36, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 04/07/2022 12:00, Tinghan Shen wrote:
>>> The max clock items for the dts node with compatible
>>> 'mediatek,mt8195-smi-sub-common' should be 3.
>>>
>>> However, the dtbs_check of such node will get following message,
>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8195-evb.dtb: smi@14010000: clock-names: ['apb', 'smi', 'gals0'] is too long
>>>           From schema: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/mediatek,smi-common.yaml
>>>
>>> Remove the last 'else' checking to fix this error.
>>
>> Missing fixes tag.
>>
> 
>  From my understanding, fixes tags are for patches that fix bugs (hw is not 
> working etc) and not a warning message from dtbs_check. So my point of view 
> would be to not add a fixes tag here.

Not conforming to bindings is also a bug. Missing properties or wrong
properties, even if hardware is working, is still a bug. If such bug is
not visible now in Linux, might be visible later in the future or
visible in different OS (DTS are used by other systems and pieces of
software like bootloaders). Limiting this only to Linux and to current
version (hardware still works) is OK for Linux drivers, but not for DTS.

Therefore Fixes tag in general is applicable. Of course maybe to this
one not really, maybe this is too trivial, or whatever, so I do not
insist. But I insist on the principle - reasonable dtbs_check warnings
are like compiler warnings - bugs which have to be fixed.


Best regards,
Krzysztof