Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: hwmon: amc6821: add fan and PWM output

[Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 08:13:14AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 05:52:28PM +0200, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
> > 
> > Add properties to describe the fan and the PWM controller output.
> > 
> > Link: https://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/amc6821
> > Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
> > ---
> > v3:
> >  - explicitly describe the fan, use standard PWM and FAN bindings
> >  - pwm.yaml cannot be referenced, because of the $nodename pattern that is
> >    enforced there
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224180801.128685-2-francesco@dolcini.it/
> >  - no changes
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250218165633.106867-2-francesco@dolcini.it/
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,amc6821.yaml      | 14 +++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,amc6821.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,amc6821.yaml
> > index 5d33f1a23d03..94aca9c378e6 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,amc6821.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,amc6821.yaml
> > @@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ properties:
> >    i2c-mux:
> >      type: object
> >  
> > +  fan:
> > +    $ref: fan-common.yaml#
> > +    unevaluatedProperties: false
> 
> Why do you need the child, instead of referencing fan-common in the top
> level?

Two small reasons.

First is that the amc6821 is a fan controller, and the fan is just
connected to it. So having the fan as a child seemed the right way to
describe it, and this is done like that in other hwmon binding.

.. but now that you asked I tried to move the fan-common to the top
level and it's not working.

I added

  allOf:
    - $ref: fan-common.yaml#

at top level, removed the fan child, and moved the pwms up one level in
the example

    i2c {
        #address-cells = <1>;
        #size-cells = <0>;

        fan_controller: fan@18 {
            compatible = "ti,amc6821";
            reg = <0x18>;
            #pwm-cells = <2>;
            pwms = <&fan_controller 40000 0>;
        };
    };

and the binding checker is not fine with it

$ make dt_binding_check DT_SCHEMA_FILES=ti,amc6821.yaml
  SCHEMA  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/processed-schema.json
  CHKDT   ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings
  LINT    ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings
  DTEX    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,amc6821.example.dts
  DTC [C] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,amc6821.example.dtb
/home/francesco/Toradex/sources/linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ti,amc6821.example.dtb: fan@18: 'pwms' does not match any of the regexes: 'pinctrl-[0-9]+'
	from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/hwmon/ti,amc6821.yaml#


Any suggestion?

Francesco