Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] staging: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra20 video decoder driver

[Dmitry Osipenko]

On 18.10.2017 00:13, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 03:13:54PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-vde.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-vde.txt
>> [...]
>>>> +- resets : Must contain an entry for each entry in reset-names.
>>>> +  See ../reset/reset.txt for details.
>>>> +- reset-names : Must include the following entries:
>>>> +  - vde
>>>
>>> -names is pointless when there is only one.
>>
>> I'd prefer to keep it. In the past we occasionally had to add clocks or
>> resets to a device tree node where only one had been present (and hence
>> no -names property) and that caused some awkwardness because verbiage
>> had to be added to the bindings that clarified that one particular entry
>> (the original one) always had to come first.
> 
> The order should be specified regardless of -names and the original
> one has to come first if you add any. That's not awkwardness, but how
> bindings work.

Probably it would be okay to remove '-names' from the binding doc, but keep them
in the actual DT, wouldn't it?