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

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Fri Nov 21 12:24:06 PST 2014


On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 06:02:13AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 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.

In this case I think we're probably fine changing it, but your argument
is a Linux implementation choice.  The BSDs and bootloaders may work
differently.  Just something to keep in mind with these things.

thx,

Jason.



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