Re: [PATCH] checks: Detect cascoda,ca8210 extclock-gpio false-positive

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:10 PM Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The binding for the cascoda,ca8210 IEEE 802.15.4 (6LoWPAN) device
> includes an extclock-gpio property which does not contain a gpio-list,
> but is instead an integer representing a pin of the device itself. This
> falls foul of the gpios_property check, for example:
>
>     DTC     arch/mips/boot/dts/img/pistachio_marduk.dtb
>   arch/mips/boot/dts/img/pistachio_marduk.dtb: Warning (gpios_property):
>     /spi@18100f00/sixlowpan@4: Missing property '#gpio-cells' in node
>     /clk@18144000 or bad phandle (referred from extclock-gpio[0])
>
> Extend the checking for false-positives in prop_is_gpio() to detect this
> case in addition to the existing nr-gpio case. The false-positive cases
> are described by an array including a compatible string & property name.
> A NULL compatible string indicates that the property may be present in
> any node, otherwise the property is only allowed in a node compatible
> with the given string. This allows us to whitelist the extclock-gpio
> property for the cascoda,ca8210 device without allowing it anywhere
> else.

IMO the binding should be fixed. It wasn't reviewed and there are no
dts files using it. I see several issues with it.

Rob




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