[RFC PATCH 4/7] irqchip/apple-aic: Add support for Apple AIC

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Jan 21 11:44:22 EST 2021


On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:49 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Mohamed,
>
> thanks for your patch!
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:31 PM Mohamed Mediouni
> <mohamed.mediouni at caramail.com> wrote:
>
> > +properties:
> > +  compatible:
> > +    items:
> > +      - const: apple,aic

As mentioned in patch 7, this needs to be SoC specific.

Also, bindings should be separate patch. checkpatch.pl will tell you this.

> However weird it may seem, Apple is not in the file
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
>
> (I think it's weird because I remember clearly that they have been
> using device tree for PPC since ages.)

That's because the vendor prefix is 'AAPL' which is the stock ticker
and it predates documenting anything.

> Could you add this 2-liner to that file and send it directly to
> DT binding maintainers as a single patch as a preparation?

So this is still needed. Happy to take that given already in use.

Rob



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