Re: [PATCH 13/36] dt-bindings: arm: Convert PMU binding to json-schema

[Will Deacon]

Hi Rob,

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 01:51:24PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:50 AM Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 01:14:02PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > I guess the single interrupt case is less obvious now with no
> > > description (it's the first list item of 'oneOf'). The schema If the
> > > single interrupt is not supported, then we can drop it here.
> >
> > Well the description says "1 interrupt per core" which is incorrect.
> 
> You are reading the schema wrong. There are 2 cases supported as
> defined by each '-'. The 2nd case is all the keywords until the
> indentation decreases. So 'description' is just description of the 2nd
> case. The first case is just "maxItems: 1". I probably didn't put a
> description because why write in free form text what the schema says
> (other than of course no one knows json-schema...).

Apologies, I've not read one of these things before and looks like I
completely misread it.

> YAML combines the best of Makefiles and python. You can't have tabs
> and Indentation is significant. :)

Oh wow, I'm in way over my head here!

> > I also
> > don't understand why maxItems is 8.
> 
> Humm, I probably just made that up based on GICv2 limitations. What
> should it be? If there's not any inherit maximum, can we put something
> reasonable? There's not really any way to express that it should match
> the number of cores in the system.

What's the largest number you can think of?

Will