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

Sachin Kamat sachin.kamat at linaro.org
Mon Feb 24 07:03:17 EST 2014


On 21 February 2014 21:01, Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com> wrote:
> On 21.02.2014 16:21, Tomasz Figa 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.
>
>
> One minor thing. It might be a good idea to base on top of my PM
> consolidation part 2 series, to avoid merge conflicts:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/299340
>
> It should hit Kgene's tree this weekend.

Sure.

-- 
With warm regards,
Sachin



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