Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] dt-bindings: riscv: drop invalid comment about riscv,isa lower-case reasoning

Conor Dooley
2023-04-28T17:06:10Z

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:16:01PM +0800, Yangyu Chen wrote:
> From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
>
> "Ease of parsing" may have been the initial argument for keeping this
> string in lower-case, but parsers may have been written that expect
> lower-case only.
> For example, the one in released kernels currently does not behave
> correctly for multi-letter extensions that begin with a capital letter.
> Allowing upper-case here brings about no benefit but would break
> compatibility between new devicetrees and older kernels.
>
> Drop the comment to avoid confusing people.
>
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>

You missed an Acked-by from Rob here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/168261158214.3107331.4410018416833510357.robh@kernel.org/

Also, when you are submitting a patch authored by another person, you
need to append your Signed-off-by to the patch ;)

Cheers,
Conor.

> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> index 001931d526ec..1ee97621d0c7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ properties:
>
> While the isa strings in ISA specification are case
> insensitive, letters in the riscv,isa string must be all
> - lowercase to simplify parsing.
> + lowercase.
> $ref: "/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string"
> pattern: ^rv(?:64|32)imaf?d?q?c?b?k?j?p?v?h?(?:[hsxz](?:[a-z])+)?(?:_[hsxz](?:[a-z])+)*$
>
> --
> 2.40.0