Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: dts: marvell: armada-37xx: drop 'marvell,usb-misc-reg' from USB host nodes
From: Gregory CLEMENT
Date: Mon Mar 23 2026 - 11:25:12 EST
Gabor Juhos <j4g8y7@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The 'marvell,usb-misc-reg' property is present both in the EHCI and
> in the XHCI USB host device nodes, however it is not documented. Thus
> 'make dtbs_check' produces warnings like these:
>
> /arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-db.dtb: usb@58000 (marvell,armada3700-xhci): Unevaluated properties are not allowed ('marvell,usb-misc-reg' was unexpected)
> from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/usb/generic-xhci.yaml
> /arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-db.dtb: usb@5e000 (marvell,armada-3700-ehci): Unevaluated properties are not allowed ('marvell,usb-misc-reg' was unexpected)
> from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/usb/generic-ehci.yaml
>
> Apart from the fact that the properties are not documented, those are
> not even used by any USB host drivers. Due to this, drop the properties
> in order to get rid of the warnings.
>
> Note:
>
> With the same name, there is a property used for the Armada 3700 USB
> UTMI PHYs of which dt-bindings documentation has been added in commit
> e60958699afa ("dt-bindings: phy: mvebu-utmi: add UTMI PHY bindings").
>
> Additionally, the property is handled by the 'phy-mvebu-a3700-utmi'
> driver since commit cc8b7a0ae866 ("phy: add A3700 UTMI PHY driver").
>
> When the nodes of the UTMI PHYs has been added to the SoC dtsi by
> commit 05d168a56fae ("arm64: dts: marvell: armada-37xx: declare USB2
> UTMI PHYs"), the properties has been added to the USB host controller
> nodes also. According to the commit message this was unintentional,
> however in regard to the USB hosts, neither the respective documentation,
> nor driver support has been added into the tree since that.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <j4g8y7@xxxxxxxxx>
Applied on mvebu/dt64
Thanks,
Gregory
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - s/intentional/unintentional/
> - add Reviewed-by tag from Miquel
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260317-armada-37xx-drop-usb-misc-reg-v2-1-ddff72114414@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Changes in v2:
> - add Reviewed-by tag from Andrew
> - change subject and reword commit message
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260304-armada-37xx-drop-usb-misc-reg-v1-1-800c1b746b7a@xxxxxxxxx
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi
> index ea1824f5321fbb32fc4373c08a0d94bca1dc793b..44c47409f8793ae1266303607812ef481edbfbc5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi
> @@ -369,7 +369,6 @@ usb3: usb@58000 {
> compatible = "marvell,armada3700-xhci",
> "generic-xhci";
> reg = <0x58000 0x4000>;
> - marvell,usb-misc-reg = <&usb32_syscon>;
> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 3 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> clocks = <&sb_periph_clk 12>;
> phys = <&comphy0 0>, <&usb2_utmi_otg_phy>;
> @@ -393,7 +392,6 @@ usb32_syscon: system-controller@5d800 {
> usb2: usb@5e000 {
> compatible = "marvell,armada-3700-ehci";
> reg = <0x5e000 0x1000>;
> - marvell,usb-misc-reg = <&usb2_syscon>;
> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 17 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> phys = <&usb2_utmi_host_phy>;
> phy-names = "usb";
>
> ---
> base-commit: 98226a594f313442fcba38cefc1df0b6c1691c7e
> change-id: 20260304-armada-37xx-drop-usb-misc-reg-e9635498cae6
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Gabor Juhos <j4g8y7@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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Grégory CLEMENT, Bootlin
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