Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: dmaengine: dma-common: Change dma-channel-mask to uint32-array

From: Peter Ujfalusi
Date: Wed Sep 18 2019 - 10:04:24 EST




On 18/09/2019 16.28, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 02:45:57PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>> Make the dma-channel-mask to be usable for controllers with more than 32
>> channels.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma-common.yaml | 10 +++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma-common.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma-common.yaml
>> index ed0a49a6f020..41460946be64 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma-common.yaml
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma-common.yaml
>> @@ -25,11 +25,19 @@ properties:
>> Used to provide DMA controller specific information.
>>
>> dma-channel-mask:
>> - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#definitions/uint32
>> description:
>> Bitmask of available DMA channels in ascending order that are
>> not reserved by firmware and are available to the
>> kernel. i.e. first channel corresponds to LSB.
>> + allOf:
>> + - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-array
>> + items:
>> + minItems = 1
>
> '='? Just making up the syntax?

Opps, sorry.

>
>> + maxItems = 255 # Should be enough
>> + - description: Mask of channels 0-31
>> + - description: Mask of channels 32-63
>
> You are mixing a schema and list here...

Should I extend the description with something like this:
"The first item in the array is for channels 0-31, the second is for
channels 32-63, etc."

To make sure that it is used in a correct and consistent manner.

>> + ...
>
> That's end of doc marker in YAML...

I believe I need some reading to do for YAML..

>
>> + - description: Mask of chnanels X-(X+31)
>
> Obviously, this was not validated with 'make dt_binding_check'.
make dt_bindings_check
make: *** No rule to make target 'dt_bindings_check'. Stop.

> What you want is:
>
> allOf:
> - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-array
> - minItems: 1
> maxItems: 255 # Should be enough

OK and thanks for the comments.

- PÃter

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