Re: [PATCH 3/4] dt-bindings: net: nxp,s32-dwmac: Use the GPR syscon

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 01:59:09PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 06:33:07PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 01/12/2025 14:08, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > The S32 chipset has a GPR region which has a miscellaneous registers
> > > including the GMAC_0_CTRL_STS register.  Originally this code accessed
> > > that register in a sort of ad-hoc way, but we want to access it using
> > > the syscon interface.
> > > 
> > > We still need to maintain the old method of accessing the GMAC register
> > > but using a syscon will let us access other registers more cleanly.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml | 6 ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml
> > > index 2b8b74c5feec..17f6c50dca03 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml
> > > @@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ properties:
> > >        - description: Main GMAC registers
> > >        - description: GMAC PHY mode control register
> > >  
> > > +  phy-sel:
> > 
> > Missing vendor prefix.
> > 
> > > +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
> > > +    items:
> > > +      - description: The offset into the s32 GPR syscon
> > 
> > No, first item is not the offset but the phandle. You need syntax like here:
> > 
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18-rc1/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/samsung/exynos-usi.yaml#L42
> > 
> > The description of the first item (unlike in example above) should say
> > what is the purpose, how this device is using GPR region, what is it
> > needed for.
> 
> I had to do it a bit differently from the exynos-usi.yaml code.  When I
> tried it that way I got the following warning that the "phy-sel" wasn't
> a common suffix and it doesn't have a description.
> 
> $ make dt_binding_check DT_SCHEMA_FILES=net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml
>   SCHEMA  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/processed-schema.json
>   CHKDT   ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings
> /home/dcarpenter/progs/kernel/nxp_gpr/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml: properties:nxp,phy-sel: 'anyOf' conditional failed, one must be fixed:
>         'description' is a dependency of '$ref'
>         '/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array' does not match '^#/(definitions|\\$defs)/'
>                 hint: A vendor property can have a $ref to a a $defs schema
>         hint: Vendor specific properties must have a type and description unless they have a defined, common suffix.
>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/vendor-props.yaml#
>   LINT    ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings
>   DTEX    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.example.dts
>   DTC [C] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.example.dtb
> 
> The exynos-usi.yaml file doesn't generate a warning like that and I wasn't
> able to figure out why that is.

Oh, crap.  I'm an idiot.  I've been staring at this for an embarrassing
long time, and I didn't see that the exynos-usi.yaml has a description
after the - items description.  And then I send this and I immediately
see it.  :/

regards,
dan carpenter