Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6115: Add basic soc dtsi

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 11/09/2022 12:22, Iskren Chernev wrote:
>         basic-state { // this matches the first state in oneOf
>             pins: "gpio1";
>             funciton: "normal";
>         };
> 
>         nested-state {
>             some-pins { // this matches the second state in oneOf
>                 pins: "gpio1";
>                 funciton: "normal";
>             };
>             other-pins {
>                 pins: "gpio2"
>                 funciton: "normal";
>             };
>         }
> 
>         // but also, matching second state in oneOf
>         nested-basic-state {
>             pinconf {
>                 pins: "gpio1";
>                 funciton: "normal";
>             };
>         };
>     };
> 
> So I'm saying, we should either choose basic-state and nested-state, in which
> case we don't need the "^pinconf$" variant, or we can have nested-state and
> nested-basic-state, in which case we don't need the 1st case of the oneOf.

Ah, I get it.

> 
> Otherwise people have to choose between basic-state and nested-basic-state,
> which are equivalent in semantics.

Yeah, I can drop pinconf. I put it in the PMIC because it was used, but
I don't find it for TLMM pinctrl nodes.

> 
> On a tangent -- why specifying the .* regex of pinctrl subnodes has effect on
> pinctrl references in other nodes. I.e I don't understand why this fix fixes
> the issue (but it does).

Because it works on DTB and finds linux,phandle. This might be some bug
in dtschema, but anyway better to have a bit stricter patterns in bindings.


Best regards,
Krzysztof