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

William Zhang william.zhang at broadcom.com
Tue Jul 12 17:59:50 PDT 2022



On 7/12/22 11:20, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 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.
> 
Well the existing 4908 compatible string is not the same format as we 
are proposing here: "board variant", "chip variant", "brcm, bcmbca"

>> 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?
> 
I can do that for sure.

> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
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