[RFC PATCH 3/3] arm64: dts: bcmbca: update bcm4808 board dts file

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Tue Jul 12 11:20:32 PDT 2022


On 12/07/2022 19:48, William Zhang wrote:
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Krzysztof
> 
> The reason for this patch is to keep the bcmbca board dts in the same 
> format and keep everything in the same yaml file. 

Not a good reason to change compatibles. You can have the same format
and keep everything in same YAML file without replacing compatibles.

> Understand 4908 was 
> already upstream but luckily there is no driver in linux and u-boot that 
> uses these 4908 compatible strings. They are only used in the board dts 
> as far as I can see.  So it does not really break anything in the end, 
> unless someone use them in any driver but never upstream their code...

So maybe just briefly mention it in the commit msg?

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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