Re: [PATCH] checks: Remove warning for I2C_OWN_SLAVE_ADDRESS

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On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:50:09PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Thu, 21 May 2020 15:09:14 +1000 David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 05:21:34PM +0930, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > > dtc does a sanity check on reg properties that they are within the 10
> > > bit address range for i2c slave addresses. In the case of multi-master
> > > buses the binding may describe an address that the bus will listen on as
> > > a device. Do not warn when this flag is set.
> > > 
> > > This fixes the following build warnings reported by Stephen:
> > > 
> > > arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-facebook-yosemitev2.dts:126.11-130.4:
> > >   Warning (i2c_bus_reg): /ahb/apb/bus@1e78a000/i2c-bus@80/ipmb1@10:
> > >     I2C bus unit address format error, expected "40000010"
> > > arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-facebook-yosemitev2.dts:128.3-30:
> > >   Warning (i2c_bus_reg): /ahb/apb/bus@1e78a000/i2c-bus@80/ipmb1@10:reg:
> > >     I2C address must be less than 10-bits, got "0x40000010"
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>  
> > 
> > Any document you can give a pointer two explaining the special meaning
> > of this bit?
> include/dt-bindings/i2c/i2c.h
> Is Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt in the kernel tree
> sufficient?

Good enough.

> I2C_OWN_SLAVE_ADDRESS has been in there since the file was
> introduced in August 2015.  The actual value has been in
> include/dt-bindings/i2c/i2c.h since the same time.

Looking at that, though, it seems like we should also ignore the
I2C_TEN_BIT_ADDRESS flag.  Or better yet, not ignore it but validate
the base addres is under 7 bits unless its set.

Can we refine that a bit, and fix the spelling errors?

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