Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: dts: ti: k3-j7200-main: Add gpio nodes in main domain

Nishanth Menon
2020-11-13T18:40:26Z

On 23:59-20201113, Sekhar Nori wrote:
[..]
> > dtbs_check: we added:
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j7200-main.dtsi: /bus@100000/gpio@600000: Missing #address-cells in interrupt provider
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j7200-main.dtsi: /bus@100000/gpio@610000: Missing #address-cells in interrupt provider
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j7200-main.dtsi: /bus@100000/gpio@620000: Missing #address-cells in interrupt provider
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j7200-main.dtsi: /bus@100000/gpio@630000: Missing #address-cells in interrupt provider
>
> Hmm, running dtbs_check, I did not really see this. These are all the
> warnings I see for TI platforms: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/m2my62mjQq/

Here is the full list of checks I ran through with kernel_patch_verify
(docker)
https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/tcnWw89CMD/

See lines 128 onwards for this series. kernel_patch_verify does'nt
complain on existing warnings, but just prints when there are additional
ones added in. Also make sure we have the right dtc as well
dtc 1.6.0 and dt_schema 2020.8.1 was used.

>
> The tree I am testing is linux-next of 12th Nov + these three patches
> applied.
>
> Also, #address-cells for interrupt provider being compulsory does not
> make full sense to me. Nothing in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/interrupts.txt or
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-davinci.txt suggests that as
> well.
>
> Existing GPIO nodes for AM654 or J721E does not have #address-cells as well.
>
> Adding Grygorii as well, in case he knows more about this.

Yes - we need to have this conversation in the community :) I had
tagged this internally already during the 5.10 merge cycle that we
need to clean up the #address-cells warning and in some cases, maybe
the bindings are probably not accurate to attempt an enforcement.
I'd really like a conclusion on the topic as I recollect Lokesh and
Grygorii had a debate internally, but reached no conclusion, lets get
the wisdom of the community to help us here.

[1] https://github.com/nmenon/kernel_patch_verify/blob/master/kpv
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