Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] dt-bindings: watchdog: aspeed-wdt: Add aspeed,scu

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:22:30AM +0800, Peter Yin wrote:
> To use the SCU register to obtain reset flags for supporting
> bootstatus.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Yin <peteryin.openbmc@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt
> index 3208adb3e52e..80a1f58b5a2e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/aspeed-wdt.txt
> @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Required properties:
>  
>   - reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped
>     region
> + - aspeed,scu: a reference to the System Control Unit node of the Aspeed
> +   SOC.

You cannot add new required properties as that is an ABI break.

If there's only 1 SCU instance, you can just fetch its node by 
compatible with no DT change.

What's the plan for converting this binding to schema? This is the 2nd 
new property in 6 months.

Rob