Re: [Linux-stm32] [PATCH v2 1/4] ASoC: dt-bindings: stm32: i2s: add audio-graph-card port

From: Alexandre TORGUE
Date: Wed Dec 08 2021 - 08:35:15 EST


On 12/8/21 1:08 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2021, Alexandre TORGUE wrote:

Hi Ahmad

On 12/7/21 2:59 PM, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
Hello Alex,

On 07.12.21 14:52, Alexandre TORGUE wrote:
Hi Rob

On 12/1/21 11:34 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 11:25:27AM +0100, Olivier MOYSAN wrote:
Hi Rob,

On 11/25/21 10:26 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 15:40:50 +0100, Olivier Moysan wrote:
The STM2 I2S DAI can be connected via the audio-graph-card.
Add port entry into the bindings.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Moysan <olivier.moysan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/st,stm32-i2s.yaml | 5 +++++
   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)


Running 'make dtbs_check' with the schema in this patch gives the
following warnings. Consider if they are expected or the schema is
incorrect. These may not be new warnings.

Note that it is not yet a requirement to have 0 warnings for dtbs_check.
This will change in the future.

Full log is available here: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1559750


audio-controller@4000b000: 'port' does not match any of the regexes: '^port@[0-9]', 'pinctrl-[0-9]+'
    arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp157a-dk1.dt.yaml
    arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp157c-dk2.dt.yaml


This warning is not a new one.

The i2s2 node in stm32mp15xx-dkx.dtsi would require the following binding:
port:
    $ref: audio-graph-port.yaml#
    unevaluatedProperties: false

However the spi binding requires to introduce a unit address:
patternProperties:
   '^port@[0-9]':
     $ref: audio-graph-port.yaml#
     unevaluatedProperties: false

The warning can be removed by re-ordering the bindings patches in the serie,
as "additionalProperties: true" makes the check more tolerant on extra
properties.

That's never right.

The patch "ASoC: dt-bindings: stm32: i2s: add audio-graph-card port" can
even be merely dropped.
So, I suggest to resend the serie without audio-graph-card patch.

Only if you aren't using audio-graph-card.


Does it sound too permissive to you ?

I think perhaps you need to combine the schemas into 1. Or you need to
restructure your dtsi files such that you only add spi specific
properties when spi mode is enabled and only add i2s specific properties
when i2s mode is enabled. Or use the /delete-property/ directive.

Initially the aim of this series was to fix a "make W=1" warnings seen on spi and i2s nodes (duplicate unit-address). Moving both nodes in a common node + using a different compatible depending on SPI or I2S usage sounded good) but it is not enough. In this series the common node is named as following: "spi2s2: spi@4000b000". It is fine for a spi usage but if we want to use this "common node" with I2S compatible and specific bindings, the node name remains spi@... and then specific spi checks are done. For this with this series applied we got this issue reported by spi-controller.yaml:

spi@4000b000: port@0: 'compatible' is a required property

So, if we use two separates nodes we got W=1 warning and if we use a common node we got yaml check issue. One possibility would be to use a common node with a new node name (for example i2spi@...) but I think it is not acceptable.

How to progress ?

Atmel Flexcom can be configured to be either UART, SPI or i2c. Functions
are child nodes of the flexcom node and the MFD driver matching against it,
just configure the operating mode and then calls of_platform_populate.

Would something along these lines fit here as well?

Yes it could but in my mind it was not a MFD as both feature cannot be used
at the same time: it is either SPI or I2S and choice is done "statically" in
device tree depending board usage.

Lee, what it is your feeling about that ? Will you accept to add a MFD
driver for this SPI/I2S peripheral whose prurpose is only to populate child
node (either SPI or I2S) ?

From your description, this doesn't sound like a good fit for MFD.

Thanks Lee for your quick answer. So rename the node frop spi@... to i2spi@... (or something else) looks like to be the only solution. Depending the compatible used the well schema will be used (if well referenced in each stm32 spi and i2s yaml files):

--> spi-controller.yaml in case of "st,stm32h7-spi"

-->audio-controller in case of "st,stm32h7-i2s"

Rob, do you agree?

regards
alex