Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] dt-bindings: Convert SP804 to Json-schema (and fix users)

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Aug 28 2020 - 10:54:21 EST


On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 4:20 PM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is the second attempt at converting the SP804 timer binding to yaml.
> Compared to v1, I forbid additional properties, and included the primecell
> binding. Also the clock-names property is now listed, although without
> further requirements on the names. Changelog below.

The series:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

> I couldn't test any of those DT files on actual machines, but tried
> to make the changes in a way that would be transparent to at least the
> Linux driver. The only other SP804 DT user I could find is FreeBSD,
> but they seem to use a different binding (no clocks, but a
> clock-frequency property).

That's annoying. I suppose FreeBSD just made that up and doesn't
even have a binding document for it?

In an ideal world I suppose we should go and fix FreeBSD but I have
no idea how easy or hard that is.

Yours,
Linus Walleij