[PATCH v4 08/15] Documentation: of: Convert graph bindings to json-schema

Sameer Pujar spujar at nvidia.com
Tue Oct 20 07:34:16 CEST 2020


>> Signed-off-by: Sameer Pujar <spujar at nvidia.com>
>> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.txt  | 128 --------------------
>>   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.yaml | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   2 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)
>>   delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.txt
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.yaml
> I'd like to move this to the dtschema repository instead.

Do you mean I need to separately submit this patch for dtschema repo?

...
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/graph.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: Common bindings for device graphs
>> +
>> +description: |
>> +  The hierarchical organisation of the device tree is well suited to describe
>> +  control flow to devices, but there can be more complex connections between
>> +  devices that work together to form a logical compound device, following an
>> +  arbitrarily complex graph.
>> +  There already is a simple directed graph between devices tree nodes using
>> +  phandle properties pointing to other nodes to describe connections that
>> +  can not be inferred from device tree parent-child relationships. The device
>> +  tree graph bindings described herein abstract more complex devices that can
>> +  have multiple specifiable ports, each of which can be linked to one or more
>> +  ports of other devices.
>> +
>> +  These common bindings do not contain any information about the direction or
>> +  type of the connections, they just map their existence. Specific properties
>> +  may be described by specialized bindings depending on the type of connection.
>> +
>> +  To see how this binding applies to video pipelines, for example, see
>> +  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt.
>> +  Here the ports describe data interfaces, and the links between them are
>> +  the connecting data buses. A single port with multiple connections can
>> +  correspond to multiple devices being connected to the same physical bus.
>> +
>> +maintainers:
>> +  - Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>
>> +
>> +definitions:
>> +
>> +  port:
>> +    type: object
>> +    description: |
>> +      If there is more than one 'port' or more than one 'endpoint' node
>> +      or 'reg' property present in the port and/or endpoint nodes then
>> +      '#address-cells' and '#size-cells' properties are required in relevant
>> +      parent node.
> reg property.

done

>
>> +
>> +    patternProperties:
>> +      "^endpoint(@[0-9a-f]+)?$":
>> +        type: object
>> +        properties:
> reg?

done

>> +          remote-endpoint:
>> +            description: |
>> +              phandle to an 'endpoint' subnode of a remote device node.
>> +            $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
>> +
>> +  ports:
>> +    type: object
>> +    patternProperties:
>> +      "^port(@[0-9a-f]+)?$":
>> +        $ref: "#/definitions/port"
> No reason for this to be under 'definitions'. Just move down.

Would definitions be needed if some schemas want to refer the base graph 
schema? Or is it like they can just directly include the base schema and 
definitions are not really required?

But what if they want to extend few properties. For example:

graph.yaml
----------
endpoint {
     remote-endpoint = <>;
};

*audio-graph-card.yaml
----------------------
endpoint {
     remote-endpoint = <>;

     property-x;
     node-x {
         ...
     };
};

>
>> +
>> +properties:
>> +  ports:
>> +    $ref: "#/definitions/ports"
>> +
>> +patternProperties:
>> +  "^port(@[0-9a-f]+)?$":
>> +    $ref: "#/definitions/port"
>> +
>> +additionalProperties: false
> This needs to be true here. But you need this within 'ports' and 'port'.
> (I think... I think we only have extra properties within endpoint
> nodes.)

I think currently audio-graph allows few properties at port/ports. I am 
not sure if Morimoto-san has plans to get rid of this.


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