[PATCH v1 08/14] dt-bindings: mtd: relax the nvmem compatible string
Rob Herring
robh at kernel.org
Wed Aug 31 14:48:09 PDT 2022
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:44:17PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> The "user-otp" and "factory-otp" compatible string just depicts a
> generic NVMEM device. But an actual device tree node might as well
> contain a more specific compatible string. Make it possible to add
> more specific binding elsewere and just match part of the compatibles
> here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd.yaml | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
In hindsight it looks like we are mixing 2 different purposes of 'which
instance is this' and 'what is this'. 'compatible' is supposed to be the
latter.
Maybe there's a better way to handle user/factory? There's a similar
need with partitions for A/B or factory/update.
Rob
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