[PATCH v2 0/2] dt-bindings: hwinfo: group devices and add s5pv210-chipid

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Tue Jul 5 07:51:08 PDT 2022


On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 09:18:31AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 8:35 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org> wrote:
> > As suggested by Rob [1], I organized a bit bindings for SoC devices having
> > similar purpose - chip identification.

What's the base? It didn't apply for me.

> >
> > These sometimes are put under nvmem directory, although in that case the
> > purpose is usually broader than just chipid.
> 
> Thanks for your series!
> 
> >   dt-bindings: hwinfo: group Chip ID-like devices
> >   dt-bindings: hwinfo: samsung,s5pv210-chipid: add S5PV210 ChipID
> 
> So why not call it "chipid"?
> "hwinfo" sounds too generic to me; aren't all DT bindings hardware
> information?

I'm fine with hwinfo as the color of the shed. I don't think we should 
encode where the information comes from.

Rob



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