[PATCH 1/3] of: base: add support to get machine compatible string

Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski at baylibre.com
Tue Nov 22 02:58:22 PST 2016


2016-11-22 11:57 GMT+01:00 Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>:
> 2016-11-22 11:53 GMT+01:00 Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>:
>>
>>
>> On 22/11/16 10:41, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>
>>> Add a function allowing to retrieve the compatible string of the root
>>> node of the device tree.
>>>
>>
>> Rob has queued [1] and it's in -next today. You can reuse that if you
>> are planning to target this for v4.11 or just use open coding in your
>> driver for v4.10 and target this move for v4.11 to avoid cross tree
>> dependencies as I already mentioned in your previous thread.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sudeep
>>
>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1274549.html
>
> Rob's patch checks the model first - I'm not sure this is the behavior
> we want here as Sekhar suggested we print the machine compatible.
>

I meant your patch of course.

Thanks,
Bartosz



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