[PATCHv4 01/10] arm: mvebu: fix vendor prefix typo in kirkwood-synology.dtsi

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Wed Nov 19 21:02:13 PST 2014


On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 08:55:19PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:01:36AM +0100, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
> > 
> > As reported by Andrew, the vendor prefix for Seiko Instruments, Inc.
> > S-35390A I2C RTC chip in kirkwood-synology.dtsi has a typo (ssi
> > instead of sii). This patches fixes it.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> > Signed-off-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno at natisbad.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-synology.dtsi | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-synology.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-synology.dtsi
> > index 811e0971fc58..8be5b2e4626e 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-synology.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-synology.dtsi
> > @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
> >  
> >  			s35390a: s35390a at 30 {
> >  				status = "disabled";
> > -				compatible = "ssi,s35390a";
> > +				compatible = "sii,s35390a";
> 
> Should the driver now support both variants for backward compatibility?

Hi Jason

This is an i2c device. i2c totally ignores the vendor. It is optional.
So there is no backward compatibility issues.

   Andrew
     



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