[PATCH 0/4] ARM: shmobile: Use SoC specific binding for rcar-dmac nodes

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Nov 17 11:28:32 PST 2015


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:23:47AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> Use the new SoC specific binding for rcar-dmac and the generic
> binding as a fall-back in the r8a779[0134] device trees.
> 
> In general Renesas hardware is not documented to the extent where the
> relationship between IP blocks on different SoCs can be assumed although
> they may appear to operate the same way. Furthermore the documentation
> typically does not specify a version for individual IP blocks. For these
> reasons a convention of using the SoC name in place of a version and
> providing SoC-specific compat strings has been adopted.
> 
> Although not universally liked this convention is used in the bindings for
> most drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose of this patch is to
> update the Renesas R-Car DMA Controller nodes to follow this convention.

As the bindings in question have now been accepted
I have queued up this series for v4.5.



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