[PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: Add msm8916 CoreSight components

Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Fri May 8 07:13:22 PDT 2015


On 8 May 2015 at 07:47, Ivan T. Ivanov <ivan.ivanov at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 07:38 -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>> On 7 May 2015 at 09:36, Ivan T. Ivanov ivanov at linaro.org> wrote:
>> > Add initial set of CoreSight components found on Qualcomm's 8x16 chipset.
>> >
>> >
>> > +       replicator at 824000 {
>> > +               compatible = "qcom,coresight-replicator", "arm,primecell";
>>
>> Shouldn't it be "qcom,coresight-replicator1x" ?
>>
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> True, I still wonder, why we have to have this compatible string?
> Drivers are probed by amba_id and "arm,primecell", after all.
>

Drivers have their own compatible strings for historical reasons,
something I've been meaning to fix for a long time now...

> Thanks,
> Ivan



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