[PATCH v7 1/3] ARM: EXYNOS: initial board support for exynos5260 SoC

Tomasz Figa t.figa at samsung.com
Wed Apr 9 02:04:41 PDT 2014


On 07.04.2014 10:38, Sachin Kamat wrote:
> Hi Rahul,
>
> On 3 April 2014 15:30, Rahul Sharma <rahul.sharma at samsung.com> wrote:
>> From: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey at samsung.com>
>>
>> This patch add basic arch side support for exynos5260 SoC.
> <snip>
>
>> @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ static char const *exynos_dt_compat[] __initconst = {
>>          "samsung,exynos4412",
>>          "samsung,exynos5",
>>          "samsung,exynos5250",
>> +       "samsung,exynos5260",
>
> I don't think we should be adding this as we do not yet have any soc
> specific quirk.
> Compatibility to generic string, "samsung,exynos5"  should be sufficient.
>

Yes. Unless a SoC specific quirk that needs to be handled at such low 
level stage emerges, there is no need to add such compatible string to 
the kernel.

Best regards,
Tomasz



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