[PATCH v5 2/4] ARM: mvebu: Add quirk for i2c for the OpenBlocks AX3-4 board

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Fri Jan 10 14:05:21 EST 2014


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 01:22:40PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:

> Do we create new compatible strings to indicate errata, or to indicate
> 'from this version forward there are new features'?  The former would
> indicate as Gregory has written '...-a0-i2c', the latter would warrant
> '...-b0-i2c' and disabling offloading if we don't see '...-b0-i2c'.

IMHO the compatible string should represent a specific HW/SW ABI. So
you need a unique compatible string for every variation of that ABI.

We already have a compatible string defined for the ABI that B0
presents.

Jason



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