[PATCH] dt-bindings: timer: Use non-empty ranges in example

From: Douglas Anderson
Date: Tue Dec 17 2019 - 01:06:18 EST


On many arm64 qcom device trees, running `make dtbs_check` yells:

timer@17c20000: #size-cells:0:0: 1 was expected

It appears that someone was trying to assert the fact that sub-nodes
describing frames would never have a size that's more than 32-bits
big. That does indeed appear to be true for all cases I could find.

Currently many arm64 qcom device tree files have a #address-cells and
about in commit bede7d2dc8f3 ("arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: Increase
address and size cells for soc"). That means the only way we can
shrink them down is to use a non-empty ranges.

Since forever it has said in "writing-bindings.txt" to "DO use
non-empty 'ranges' to limit the size of child buses/devices". I guess
we should start listening to it.

I believe (but am not certain) that this also means that we should use
"ranges" to simplify the "reg" of our sub devices by specifying an
offset. Let's update the example in the bindings to make this
obvious.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
See:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191212113540.7.Ia9bd3fca24ad34a5faaf1c3e58095c74b38abca1@changeid

...for the patch that sparked this change.

.../devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,arch_timer_mmio.yaml | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,arch_timer_mmio.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,arch_timer_mmio.yaml
index b3f0fe96ff0d..d927b42ddeb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,arch_timer_mmio.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,arch_timer_mmio.yaml
@@ -99,22 +99,22 @@ examples:
compatible = "arm,armv7-timer-mem";
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <1>;
- ranges;
+ ranges = <0 0xf0000000 0x1000>;
reg = <0xf0000000 0x1000>;
clock-frequency = <50000000>;

- frame@f0001000 {
+ frame@0 {
frame-number = <0>;
interrupts = <0 13 0x8>,
<0 14 0x8>;
- reg = <0xf0001000 0x1000>,
- <0xf0002000 0x1000>;
+ reg = <0x0000 0x1000>,
+ <0x1000 0x1000>;
};

frame@f0003000 {
frame-number = <1>;
interrupts = <0 15 0x8>;
- reg = <0xf0003000 0x1000>;
+ reg = <0x2000 0x1000>;
};
};

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