Re: [PATCH v2 02/12] dt-bindings: net: starfive,jh7110-dwmac: Drop superfluous select

From: Cristian Ciocaltea
Date: Mon Oct 30 2023 - 15:25:46 EST


On 10/30/23 09:27, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 29/10/2023 22:08, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>> On 10/29/23 13:18, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 29/10/2023 05:27, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>>>> The usage of 'select' doesn't seem to have any influence on how this
>>>> binding schema is applied to the nodes, hence remove it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It has. Why do you think it doesn't? You should see new errors from
>>> dwmac schema.
>>
>> This patch came as a result of testing both variants (w/ and w/o
>> 'select') with several different compatible strings and seeing
>> consistent output:
>>
>> - "starfive,jh7110-dwmac", "invalid";
>> - "starfive,jh7110-dwmac";
>> - "invalid", "snps,dwmac-5.20";
>> - "invalid"
>>
>> Did I miss something?
>
> Testing all bindings? The select is there to prevent matching unrelated
> bindings.

Indeed, my bad, as I've been using DT_SCHEMA_FILES to restrict the scope
during initial testing and missed to include later other schemas for an
extended validation (note that since [1] it's possible to specify a list
of file paths separated by ':').

Will drop this in v3.

[1] 25eba1598c8e ("dt-bindings: Fix multi pattern support in
DT_SCHEMA_FILES")

Thanks,
Cristian