dt-bindings: mfd: syscon: Disallow simple-bus with syscon

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"syscon" is a system controller with registers having their own
functions, thus not really a trivial MMIO simple bus.  "simple-bus" on
the other hand is just a bus on which multiple devices sit and the
"simple" means no functions are allowed here.

Combination of both "syscon" and "simple-bus" is abuse of DT for easier
instantiating of Linux device drivers so add a schema to disallow that.

Unfortunately there are a few old cases of that patterns, so add
exceptions:

1. "cznic,turris1x-cpld" and "img,pistachio-cr-periph" are already used
   in upstream DTS.

2. TI has several DTSI with a child of SCM device (e.g. "ti,am3-scm")
   using "syscon" and "simple-bus" but without a dedicated compatible
   documented anywhere.  Add new compatibles for such cases.

Additionally, add comments around code enforcing two or three
compatibles: it is similar safeguard detecting incorrect bindings.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260608-n-dt-bindings-simple-bus-syscon-v3-1-4eba9ec1212a@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>

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