Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: qcom,ipa: make imem interconnect optional

[Alex Elder]

On 7/23/21 3:52 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 04:24:54PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > On some newer SoCs, the interconnect between IPA and SoC internal
> > memory (imem) is not used.  Reflect this in the binding by moving
> > the definition of the "imem" interconnect to the end and defining
> > minItems to be 2 for both the interconnects and interconnect-names
> > properties.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   .../devicetree/bindings/net/qcom,ipa.yaml      | 18 ++++++++++--------
> >   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qcom,ipa.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qcom,ipa.yaml
> > index ed88ba4b94df5..4853ab7017bd9 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qcom,ipa.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qcom,ipa.yaml
> > @@ -87,16 +87,18 @@ properties:
> >         - const: ipa-setup-ready
> >   
> >     interconnects:
> > +    minItems: 2
> >       items:
> > -      - description: Interconnect path between IPA and main memory
> > -      - description: Interconnect path between IPA and internal memory
> > -      - description: Interconnect path between IPA and the AP subsystem
> > +      - description: Path leading to system memory
> > +      - description: Path between the AP and IPA config space
> > +      - description: Path leading to internal memory
> >   
> >     interconnect-names:
> > +    minItems: 2
> >       items:
> >         - const: memory
> > -      - const: imem
> >         - const: config
> > +      - const: imem
>
> What about existing users? This will generate warnings. Doing this for
> the 2nd item would avoid the need for .dts updates:
>
> - enum: [ imem, config ]

If I understand correctly, the effect of this would be that
the second item can either be "imem" or "config", and the third
(if present) could only be "imem"?

And you're saying that otherwise, existing users (the only
one it applies to at the moment is "sdm845.dtsi") would
produce warnings, because the interconnects are listed
in an order different from what the binding specifies.

Is that correct?

If so, what you propose suggests "imem" could be listed twice.
It doesn't make sense, and maybe it's precluded in other ways
so that's OK.  But I'd be happy to update "sdm845.dtsi" to
address your concern.  (Maybe that's something you would rather
avoid?)

Also, I need to make a separate update to "sm8350.dtsi" because
that was defined before I understood what I do now about the 
interconnects.  It uses the wrong names, and should combine
its first two interconnects into just one.

					-Alex

> Rob