Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] dt-bindings: display/msm: gpu: Document A612 GPU

From: Akhil P Oommen
Date: Mon Nov 24 2025 - 16:39:23 EST


On 11/22/2025 4:32 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 03:22:16AM +0530, Akhil P Oommen wrote:
>> +
>> + - if:
>> + properties:
>> + compatible:
>> + contains:
>> + const: qcom,adreno-612.0
>> + then:
>> + properties:
>> + clocks:
>> + items:
>> + - description: GPU Core clock
>> +
>> + clock-names:
>> + items:
>> + - const: core
>> +
>> + required:
>> + - clocks
>> + - clock-names
>> +
>> else:
>
> I am pretty sure you break not only intention/logic behindi this else,
> but actually cause real warnings to appear.
>
> The else was intentional, right? So the pattern further will not match
> some of devices defined in if:. Now else is for different part, so only
> 612 out of these devices is excluded.
>
> There is a reason we do not want ever else:if: in bindings. If it
> appeared, sure, maybe there is some benefit of it, but it means you need
> to be more careful now.

Aah! I missed that this comes under an 'allOf'. Not an expert in this
syntax, does moving this entire block under an 'else' make sense? Or is
there a saner alternative?

Regrettably, I tested dtbs-check only for the talos-ride dtb.

-Akhil.

>
>> if:
>> properties:
>>
>> --
>> 2.51.0
>>