Re: [Patch v6 3/4] dt-bindings: memory: Update reg maxitems for tegra186

[Ashish Mhetre <amhetre@nvidia.com>]

On 4/12/2022 3:58 AM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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> On 4/11/22 18:41, Ashish Mhetre wrote:
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>> On 4/11/2022 8:59 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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>>> On 4/11/22 18:02, Ashish Mhetre wrote:
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>>>> On 4/10/2022 7:51 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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>>>>> 06.04.2022 08:24, Ashish Mhetre пишет:
>>>>>>             memory-controller@2c00000 {
>>>>>>                 compatible = "nvidia,tegra186-mc";
>>>>>> -            reg = <0x0 0x02c00000 0x0 0xb0000>;
>>>>>> +            reg = <0x0 0x02c00000 0x0 0x10000>,    /* MC-SID */
>>>>>> +                  <0x0 0x02c10000 0x0 0x10000>,    /* Broadcast
>>>>>> channel */
>>>>>> +                  <0x0 0x02c20000 0x0 0x10000>,    /* MC0 */
>>>>>> +                  <0x0 0x02c30000 0x0 0x10000>,    /* MC1 */
>>>>>> +                  <0x0 0x02c40000 0x0 0x10000>,    /* MC2 */
>>>>>> +                  <0x0 0x02c50000 0x0 0x10000>;    /* MC3 */
>>>>>> +            reg-names = "mc-sid", "mc-broadcast", "mc0", "mc1",
>>>>>> "mc2", "mc3";
>>>>>
>>>>> The "mc-" prefix feels redundant to me, I'd name the regs like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>      "sid", "broadcast", "ch0", "ch1", "ch2", "ch3"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You should also add validation of the regs/reg-names to the yaml based
>>>>> on SoC version. I.e. it's not enough to only bump the maxItems.
>>>>
>>>> Okay, I will add validation of reg-names as following:
>>>>
>>>>     reg-names:
>>>>       minItems: 0
>>>>       maxItems: 6
>>>>       items:
>>>>         - const: sid
>>>>         - const: broadcast
>>>>         - const: ch0
>>>>         - const: ch1
>>>>         - const: ch2
>>>>         - const: ch3
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We will have to keep minItems to 0 in order to make it compatible with
>>>> old DT, right?
>>>
>>> Bindings are about the latest DTs. In general older dtbs must be updated
>>> and you must get error from the schema checker for older DTs. It's only
>>> drivers that should care about older dtbs.
>>
>> On v5 Krzysztof mentioned that old DTS will start failing with new
>> bindings https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/3/22/907.
>> So I just wanted to confirm whether it's fine if updated bindings
>> start to fail with old DTS?
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> Since the older DT was incorrect, it's fine that the DT check will fail
> for it.

Thanks for confirming Dmitry. I will incorporate all comments and send
v7.