On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 08:36:33PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 16:51, Jean-Philippe Brucker
> <jean-phili...@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Fix three dt-validate warnings about the GIC node due to invalid names
> > and missing property:
> >
> >   intc@8000000: $nodename:0: 'intc@8000000' does not match 
> > '^interrupt-controller(@[0-9a-f,]+)*$'
> >   intc@8000000: 'its@8080000' does not match any of the regexes: 
> > '^(msi-controller|gic-its|interrupt-controller)@[0-9a-f]+$', '^gic-its@', 
> > '^interrupt-controller@[0-9a-f]+$', 'pinctrl-[0-9]+'
> >
> >   interrupt-controller@8000000: msi-controller@8080000: '#msi-cells' is a 
> > required property
> >   From schema: 
> > linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.yaml
> 
> Why is dt-validate complaining about the node names? Surely
> anything looking for the ITS in the DT should be looking for
> it by the "compatible" string ?

The device-tree specification, in 2.2.2 Generic Name Recommendation [1],
provides the node names. Given that the guest will look at compatible
strings, changing the name is safe.

Thanks,
Jean

[1] 
http://devicetree-org.github.io/devicetree-specification/index.html#generic-names-recommendation
 

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