答复: [PATCH v3 2/2] i2c: imx: Add Vybrid VF610 I2C controller support

[Stephen Warren]

On 08/13/2013 01:46 AM, s.hauer at pengutronix.de wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:23:35PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 08/12/2013 10:43 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>>> The binding string for i2c-imx driver in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-imx.txt use a wildcard format
>>>> of "- compatible : Should be "fsl,<chip>-i2c" " for device using this driver. Neither fsl,imx1-i2c nor fsl,imx21-i2c
>>>> is described in the binding document. So I just leave the vf610 i2c compatible with this. 
>>>
>>> I'm not a big fan on wildcards in bindings, as it leaves people free to
>>> put anything in and claim it's a documented binding, and makes it far
>>> harder for an os to actually implement drivers for said binding, as
>>> there's no canonical reference for the set of valid variations.
>>>
>>> Obviously there is some precedent, but I'm not sure it's something we
>>> want to stick with, and we can prevent it my updating the documentation
>>> now.
>>>
>>> Does anyone else have an opinion?
>>
>> I suppose technically we should list out every exact string in the
>> binding, but it's a little annoying to have to update the binding doc
>> every time a new chip comes out (and I expect that'll happen more and
>> more!) just to add a new compatible value since all the differences are
>> known internally to the driver and don't impact the binding...
> 
> We would only have to update the the docs when an incompatible SoC comes
> out. For this particular driver this would be all marked with a star:
> 
> * i.MX1
> * i.MX21
>   i.MX25
>   i.MX27
>   i.MX31
>   i.MX35
>   i.MX51
>   i.MX53
>   i.MX6
> * Vybrid
> 
> That's not too many updates to the binding docs since 2001.
> (The SPI core changed with nearly every SoC version though)

So, the SPI core changed its HW implementation, or changed its
SW-visible interface? If the latter, then you need a separate compatible
value for each, which was my point.