# Re: \[PATCH\] dt-bindings: dma: snps,dw-axi-dmac: Group tuples in snps properties

- From: Geert Uytterhoeven \<geert@linux-m68k.org\>
- Date: 2021-12-02 10:05:19 
- List: dmaengine
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/dmaengine/2021/12/1594094
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dmaengine/2021/11/1586633/t.md

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Hi Rob,

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 11:44 PM Rob Herring [ref] wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:19:18PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > To improve human readability and enable automatic validation, the tuples
> > in "snps,block-size" and "snps,priority" properties should be grouped
> > using angle brackets.
>
> For these, the tools should allow either way. Where are you seeing an
> error?

Good to know. I'm not seeing any errors.

> I tried to rationalize which way should be 'correct' and gave up. I
> think bracketing only makes sense for matrix and phandle+arg cases.

That makes sense.  And "interrupts" is special, because it's really a
short-hand for "interrupts-extended", with the phandle specified by
"interrupt-parent" at the same or a higher level.

Hence I'll drop this patch.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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