SHMobile Compatibility String Inconsistencies

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, Simon Horman wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:31:31PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > On Friday 23 August 2013 12:11:11 David Gibson wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:46:40PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > Hi Laurent, Hi Guennadi, Hi All,
> > > > 
> > > > Olof has brought to my attention that there is some inconsistency
> > > > in the way that compatibility strings for SHMobile are named and he
> > > > has asked us to clean things up for v3.12.
> > > > 
> > > > Looking through arch/arm/boot/dts/ I see that we have:
> > > > 
> > > > 1. {gpio,pfc}-r8aXXXX and;

Add shdma-<soc> to the above

> > > > 2. r8aXXXX-sdhi
> > > > 
> > > > The inconsistency that Olof has asked us to resolve is that we
> > > > should either use r8aXXXX- or -r8aXXXX. Not both.

Given the 3:1 score the choice seems rather simple to me. So, if we do
have to make those consistent, let's change SDHI.

> > > > It seems to me that neither option is inherently better than the other
> > > > so we should just choose the path of least resistance to make things
> > > > consistent.
> > > > 
> > > > Laurent, Guennadi, do you have any opinions on if it would
> > > > be easier to change the GPIO and PFC compatibility strings;
> > > > or to change the SDHI compatibility strings?
> > > > 
> > > > Ideally I would like you to come to some sort of consensus and send
> > > > patches.
> > > 
> > > So, by all means clean this up in the dts.
> > > 
> > > BUT, in keeping with the recent discussions on improving the DT
> > > process, the corresponding drivers must continue to recognize both
> > > forms, so that old DTs will still work correctly.
> > 
> > Given the early state of DT support in arm/mach-shmobile, I'm pretty sure we 
> > have no DT-based systems in the wild. The old compatibility string could in my 
> > opinion just be dropped.
> 
> I tend to agree, though I don't mind either way.

So, what path should we choose? I see 2 SDHI users in your current "devel" 
brunch: sh73a0 (kzm9g) and r8a73a4 (ape6evm). Should we make a single 
patch, changing the driver and both users and push it via ARM with Chris' 
ack or shall we add new compats, switch .dtsi's, remove old compats - over 
2 kernel versions? Can we still get anything for this into 3.12 or is it 
too late? Would it be a "fix" enough for -rc2 / late -rc1?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
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