Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: watchdog: Add StarFive Watchdog driver

[Emil Renner Berthing]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 16:10, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/28/23 05:16, Xingyu Wu wrote:
> > On 2023/2/28 19:11, Conor Dooley wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 11:57:58AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>> On 28/02/2023 11:51, Conor Dooley wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 11:36:49AM +0100, Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 10:44, Xingyu Wu <xingyu.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>> On 2023/2/26 22:14, Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 09:21, Xingyu Wu <xingyu.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> So the dt-bingdings need to rename, and which one could be better,
> >>>>>> 'starfive,jh71x0-wdt.yaml' or 'starfive,jh-wdt.yaml'?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sure, starfive,jh71x0-wdt.yaml sounds good to me.
> >>>>
> >>>> I feel like a common comment I see from the dt folks is to not put
> >>>> wildcards in filenames & just pick the first compatible.
> >>>> I could very well be wrong on that front though...
> >>>
> >>> First compatible is a bit better, unless you are sure this will cover
> >>> all such compatibles now and in the future. For many bindings the
> >>> family/wildcards were fine in filename.
> >>
> >> Ahh cool, good to know what the specific policy is - thanks!
> >
> > If this watchdog driver is improved to also support JH7100 in next patch,
> > it seems more reasonable to rename the dt-bingdings to 'starfive,jh71x0-wdt.yaml'.
>
>
> Up to the devicetree maintainers to decide, but I for my part never accept
> wildcards in file names. You can not guarantee that all of jh71[0-9]0 will
> be supported by this set of bindings. On top of that, when / if you add
> support for anything outside that range (say, jh7200 or jh8100 or jh7101
> or whatever) you'd have an even worse problem. Are you then going to suggest
> renaming the file to jhxxxx-wdt ? Or one digit at a time ?

Makes sense to me, in which case this should be called
starfive,jh7100-wdt since that's the first SoC to feature this
watchdog and will hopefully be supported in the next version of this
patchset.

/Emil