[PATCH] dt-bindings: Drop redundant maxItems/items

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:54:26AM -0700, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:39 PM Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 09:06:45PM -0700, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > 'maxItems' equal to the 'items' list length is redundant. 'maxItems' is
> > > preferred for a single entry while greater than 1 should have an 'items'
> > > list.
> > >
> > > A meta-schema check for this is pending once these existing cases are
> > > fixed.
> > >
> > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> > > Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul at kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Cc: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh at linaro.org>
> > > Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > > Cc: dmaengine at vger.kernel.org
> > > Cc: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> > > Cc: linux-usb at vger.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> >
> > With one comment below,
> > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>
> >
> > > ---
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/renesas,usbhs.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/renesas,usbhs.yaml
> > > index 737c1f47b7de..54c361d4a7af 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/renesas,usbhs.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/renesas,usbhs.yaml
> > > @@ -74,11 +74,8 @@ properties:
> > >
> > >    phys:
> > >      maxItems: 1
> > > -    items:
> > > -      - description: phandle + phy specifier pair.
> >
> > The description may help some people, so keeping the
> > description and deleting maxItems would maybe be better.
> 
> Do we really want to describe 'phys' hundreds of times? No. The
> question I ask on the descriptions is could it be generated instead.

I agree. If the description had mentioned why particular PHY was
referenced, I would have kept that, but "the phy is a phy" is probably
not something we want to duplicate everywhere.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart