[PATCH 1/1] ARM: Exynos: Add generic compatible string

Sachin Kamat sachin.kamat at linaro.org
Mon Feb 24 07:02:53 EST 2014


On 21 February 2014 20:51, Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com> wrote:
> On 21.02.2014 15:48, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> On Friday 21 February 2014 14:18:49 Tomasz Figa wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Now that we have a broader agreement on this, I think we can go ahead
>>>> with the
>>>> following steps as an initial approach:
>>>> 1. Have a common machine file for both exynos4 and 5 files,
>>>> mach-exynos-dt.c.
>>>> 2. Introduce a generic compatible string "samsung,exynos".
>>>> 3. Append this to the compatible property list for existing boards.
>>>>
>>>> If this plan looks OK, I can send across patches doing this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks good. I would also merge common.c with this resulting
>>> mach-exynos-dt.c, as it would be the only user of the code there.
>>
>>
>> Sounds good. While the naming is not important, I would just call the
>> file 'exynos.c', in line with some of the other platforms we have.
>> Both the 'mach-' and the '-dt' part of the file name are redundant.
>>
>> Alternatively, you could merge it all into common.c.
>
>
> exynos.c sounds good to me.

Sounds good to me too.

-- 
With warm regards,
Sachin



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