[v2, 1/5] mmc: dt: add compatible into eSDHC required properties

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Mon May 8 09:36:26 PDT 2017


On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 03:01:04AM +0000, Y.B. Lu wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shawn Guo [mailto:shawnguo at kernel.org]
> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 10:37 AM
> > To: Y.B. Lu
> > Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> > ulf.hansson at linaro.org; Rob Herring; Catalin Marinas; Harninder Rai;
> > Xiaobo Xie
> > Subject: Re: [v2, 1/5] mmc: dt: add compatible into eSDHC required
> > properties
> > 
> > On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 06:48:56PM +0800, Yangbo Lu wrote:
> > > This patch is to add compatible into eSDHC required properties.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu at nxp.com>
> > > ---
> > > Changes for v2:
> > > 	- Added this patch.
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-esdhc.txt | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-esdhc.txt
> > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-esdhc.txt
> > > index dedfb02..b04b248 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-esdhc.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-esdhc.txt
> > > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This file documents differences between the core
> > > properties described  by mmc.txt and the properties used by the sdhci-
> > esdhc driver.
> > >
> > >  Required properties:
> > > +  - compatible : should be "fsl,esdhc", or "fsl,<chip>-esdhc".
> > 
> > I think either supported <chip> or the compatible should be listed
> > explicitly.
> > 
> 
> [Lu Yangbo-B47093] I think the reason we use <chip> is to avoid listing too much chips, and to avoid doc updating if new chips are added.
> The checkpatch script also had considered that.
> 
> Currently there're about 20 platforms with "fsl,<chip>-esdhc" compatible in kernel dts.

Yes, but it's generally preferred to list possible values of <chip>.

Rob



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