[PATCH v3 3/4] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: fsl, ls-extirq: convert to YAML

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 27/04/2022 22:08, Leo Li wrote:
>> Convert the fsl,ls-extirq binding to the new YAML format.
>>
>> In contrast to the original binding documentation, there are three
>> compatibles which are used in their corresponding device trees which have a
>> specific compatible and the (already documented) fallback
>> compatible:
>>  - "fsl,ls1046a-extirq", "fsl,ls1043a-extirq"
>>  - "fsl,ls2080a-extirq", "fsl,ls1088a-extirq"
>>  - "fsl,lx2160a-extirq", "fsl,ls1088a-extirq"
>>
>> Depending on the number of the number of the external IRQs which is
>> usually 12 except for the LS1021A where there are only 6, the interrupt-map-
>> mask was reduced from 0xffffffff to 0xf and 0x7 respectively and the number
>> of interrupt-map entries have to match.
> 
> I assume this change won't prevent driver to be compatible with older device trees using the 0xffffffff?  The original 0xffffffff should work for both 6/12 interrupts or whatever reasonable number of interrupts that maybe used in future SoCs.  So the purpose of this change is to make the binding more specific to catch more errors in device tree?

Yes.

Best regards,
Krzysztof