Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] dt-bindings: clocks: atmel,at91rm9200-pmc: convert to yaml

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 10/05/2023 09:00, Claudiu.Beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 09.05.2023 09:25, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
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>> On 09/05/2023 07:27, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
>>> Convert Atmel PMC documentation to yaml. Along with it clock names
>>> were adapted according to the current available device trees as
>>> different controller versions accept different clocks (some of them
>>> have 3 clocks as input, some has 2 clocks as inputs and some with 2
>>> input clocks uses different clock names).
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for your patch. There is something to discuss/improve.
>>
>>> +title: Atmel Power Management Controller (PMC)
>>> +
>>> +maintainers:
>>> +  - Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> +
>>> +description:
>>> +  The power management controller optimizes power consumption by controlling all
>>> +  system and user peripheral clocks. The PMC enables/disables the clock inputs
>>> +  to many of the peripherals and to the processor.
>>> +
>>> +properties:
>>> +  compatible:
>>> +    oneOf:
>>> +      - items:
>>> +          - enum:
>>> +              - atmel,at91sam9g15-pmc
>>> +              - atmel,at91sam9g20-pmc
>>> +              - atmel,at91sam9g25-pmc
>>> +              - atmel,at91sam9g35-pmc
>>> +              - atmel,at91sam9x25-pmc
>>> +              - atmel,at91sam9x35-pmc
>>> +          - enum:
>>> +              - atmel,at91sam9260-pmc
>>> +              - atmel,at91sam9x5-pmc
>>
>> I missed it last time - why you have two enums? We never talked about
>> this. It's usually wrong... are you sure this is real hardware:
>> atmel,at91sam9g20-pmc, atmel,at91sam9260-pmc
>> ?
> 
> I have 2 enums because there are some hardware covered by:
> "vendor-name,hardware-v1-pmc", "syscon" and some covered by:
> "vendor-name,hardware-v2-pmc", "vendor-name,hardware-v1-pmc", "syscon".

The enum does not say this. At all.

So again, answer, do not ignore:
is this valid setup:
atmel,at91sam9g20-pmc, atmel,at91sam9260-pmc
?

> 
> Many AT91 device trees compatibles were written in this way. Thus when new
> versions of the same IP has been introduced the drivers were not
> necessarily updated but the compatibles in device trees were updated e.g.
> with "vendor-name,hardware-v2-pmc" (the full compatible becoming
> "vendor-name,hardware-v2-pmc", "vendor-name,hardware-v1-pmc", "syscon") and
> let the drivers fall back to already in driver supported compatible
> "vendor-name,hardware-v1-pmc", "syscon". In general v2 comes with new
> features in addition to v1.
> 
> That way they AT91 ensures the ABI properties of DT and thus when the
> drivers were finally updated with the new features of the
> "vendor-name,hardware-v2-pmc" DT remained in place.
> 
> Please let me know if these could be handled better in YAML.


enum + const + syscon, like every binding that type does in all
bindings. Don't invent some new syntax.

Best regards,
Krzysztof