Re: [PATCH 3/3] dt-bindings: PCI: brcm,iproc-pcie: Fix 'msi' child node schema

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Sep 27 2023 - 13:07:20 EST


On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 10:35 AM Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:56:09AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > The 'msi' child node schema is missing constraints on additional properties.
> > It turns out it is incomplete and properties for it are documented in the
> > parent node by mistake. Move the reference to msi-controller.yaml and
> > the custom properties to the 'msi' node. Adding 'unevaluatedProperties'
> > ensures all the properties in the 'msi' node are documented.
> >
> > With the schema corrected, a minimal interrupt controller node is needed
> > to properly decode the interrupt properties since the example has
> > multiple interrupt parents.
>
> I suppose this is an ABI break, but the patch just makes the binding
> match the example and intent.

It also matches what the in tree users do, so not an ABI break. I
imagine the .txt binding just listed out properties and the conversion
carried that over.

> Feels like of all the patches doing the
> unevaluatedProperty additions, this one is the most deserving of a fixes
> tag, since the original binding just seems to be completely wrong?

Yes, though the example fix is a dependency, so probably not worth backporting.

Fixes: 905b986d099c ("dt-bindings: pci: Convert iProc PCIe to YAML")

Rob