Re: [PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: arm: stm32: allow TAMP nvram child node for syscon

From: Rob Herring

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 14:56:11 EST


On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 04:11:23PM +0200, Patrice Chotard wrote:
> The STM32 TAMP node (compatible "st,stm32-tamp", "syscon", "simple-mfd")
> exposes its backup registers through an nvram child node described by
> nvmem/st,stm32-tamp-nvram.yaml. That requires the TAMP node to carry
> "#address-cells", "#size-cells", "ranges" and an "nvram@..." child.
>
> st,stm32-syscon.yaml uses "additionalProperties: false" and only allowed
> reg/clocks/#clock-cells, so wiring the nvram provider into the DTSI made
> "make dtbs_check" fail on every STM32MP TAMP node:
>
> tamp@5c00a000 (st,stm32-tamp): '#address-cells', '#size-cells',
> 'nvram@5c00a100', 'ranges' do not match any of the regexes:
> '^pinctrl-[0-9]+$'
>
> Allow the addressing properties and the nvram child, gated on the
> st,stm32-tamp compatible so the other syscon variants stay strict.
> "#size-cells" may be 1 or 2: the STM32MP21 soc bus uses two size cells
> (an empty "ranges" requires the node to match its parent) while the
> other STM32MP SoCs use one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/arm/stm32/st,stm32-syscon.yaml | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32/st,stm32-syscon.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32/st,stm32-syscon.yaml
> index 95d2319afe23..8a0e751591f6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32/st,stm32-syscon.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32/st,stm32-syscon.yaml
> @@ -39,6 +39,21 @@ properties:
> "#clock-cells":
> const: 0
>
> + "#address-cells":
> + const: 1
> +
> + "#size-cells":
> + enum: [1, 2]
> +
> + ranges: true
> +
> +patternProperties:
> + "^nvram@[0-9a-f]+$":
> + type: object
> + description:
> + TAMP backup registers exposed as an NVMEM provider. See
> + nvmem/st,stm32-tamp-nvram.yaml.

To ensure the node matches a schema:

required:
- compatible

Rob