Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: add dt bindings for marvell10g driver

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 06:36:36PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > +    allOf:
> > > > +      - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint16-array
> > > > +      - minItems: 1
> > > > +        maxItems: 4
> > > > +
> > > > +examples:
> > > > +  - |
> > > > +    ethernet-phy@0 {
> > > > +        reg = <0>;
> > > 
> > > This needs to be under an 'mdio' node with #address-cells and
> > > #size-cells set correctly.
> > 
> > I wish these things were documented somewhere... I'm pretty sure this
> > passed validation when I wrote it.
> 
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio.yaml

I'm not sure that makes it any more obvious.  Maybe it's obvious to
those who understand yaml, but for the rest of us, it isn't.

> Rob, is there a way to express the hierarchy between yaml files and
> properties? Can we say that a phy, as defined by ethernet-phy.yaml
> should always be inside an MDIO bus as defined in mdio.yaml?

and yes, it isn't even referenced from ethernet-phy.yaml, so how one
would know to even look there.

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