[PATCH 2/5] ARM: shmobile: r8a7791: add i2c master nodes to dtsi
Wolfram Sang
wsa at the-dreams.de
Mon Feb 17 02:54:10 EST 2014
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:40:55AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> From: Wolfram Sang <wsa at sang-engineering.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa at sang-engineering.com>
From your other mail:
"[2/5] needs to be reworked to exclude the r8a7790 compatible string."
> + compatible = "renesas,i2c-r8a7791", "renesas,i2c-r8a7790";
Why is that? From my knowledge, you start with the exact compatible
property and hardware compatible entries may follow. This is backed up
by Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt:
===
The 'compatible' property contains a sorted list of strings starting
with the exact name of the machine, followed by an optional list of
boards it is compatible with sorted from most compatible to least.
===
And from the devicetree wiki [1]:
===
compatible is a list of strings. The first string in the list specifies
the exact device that the node represents in the form
"<manufacturer>,<model>". The following strings represent other devices
that the device is compatible with.
For example, the Freescale MPC8349 System on Chip (SoC) has a serial
device which implements the National Semiconductor ns16550 register
interface. The compatible property for the MPC8349 serial device should
therefore be: compatible = "fsl,mpc8349-uart", "ns16550". In this case,
fsl,mpc8349-uart specifies the exact device, and ns16550 states that it
is register-level compatible with a National Semiconductor 16550 UART.
Note: ns16550 doesn't have a manufacturer prefix purely for historical
reasons. All new compatible values should use the manufacturer prefix.
This practice allows existing device drivers to be bound to a newer
device, while still uniquely identifying the exact hardware.
===
Has this changed?
[1 ]http://www.devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage#Understanding_the_compatible_Property
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