Rob Herring points out that "The default for .*-names is the entries
don't have to be unique.":
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-phy/20251204155219.GA1533839-robh@kernel.org/

Let's use uniqueItems: true to make sure the schema enforces this. It
doesn't make sense in this case to have duplicate properties for the
same SerDes protocol.

Note that this can only be done with the $defs + $ref pattern as
established by the previous commit. When the tx-p2p-microvolt-names
constraints were expressed directly under "properties", it would have
been validated by the string-array meta-schema, which does not support
the 'uniqueItems' keyword as can be seen below.

properties:tx-p2p-microvolt-names: Additional properties are not allowed ('uniqueItems' was unexpected)
        from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/string-array.yaml

Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
---
v1->v2: patch is new

 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-common-props.yaml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-common-props.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-common-props.yaml
index 775f4dfe3cc3..31bf1382262a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-common-props.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-common-props.yaml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ $defs:
       'default' is not provided, the system should use manufacturer default value.
     minItems: 1
     maxItems: 16
+    uniqueItems: true
     items:
       enum:
         - default
-- 
2.34.1

On Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:03:56 +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Rob Herring points out that "The default for .*-names is the entries
> don't have to be unique.":
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-phy/20251204155219.GA1533839-robh@kernel.org/
> 
> Let's use uniqueItems: true to make sure the schema enforces this. It
> doesn't make sense in this case to have duplicate properties for the
> same SerDes protocol.
> 
> Note that this can only be done with the $defs + $ref pattern as
> established by the previous commit. When the tx-p2p-microvolt-names
> constraints were expressed directly under "properties", it would have
> been validated by the string-array meta-schema, which does not support
> the 'uniqueItems' keyword as can be seen below.
> 
> properties:tx-p2p-microvolt-names: Additional properties are not allowed ('uniqueItems' was unexpected)
>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/string-array.yaml
> 
> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
> ---
> v1->v2: patch is new
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-common-props.yaml | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>