[PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: mvebu: split SolidRun CuBox into variants

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue May 27 09:38:11 PDT 2014


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 06:30:41PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
...
> About the board specific compatibles, I am not so sure if we should
> keep them at all. "solidrun,cubox" for all three variants should be
> enough. checkpatch is already choking on every unknown compatible it
> sees and documenting each individual board clearly doesn't scale well.

Yeah, I saw that conversation.  I'm inclined to keep the board
compatible strings because they are a useful human readable globally
unique board identifier.  I suggest we fix checkpatch to not barf on the
board compatible strings.

thx,

Jason.



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