[PATCH 03/17] dt-bindings: i2c: samsung,s3c2410-i2c: add specific compatibles for existing SoC

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri Nov 10 12:39:08 PST 2023


On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 11:43:29AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Samsung Exynos SoC reuses several devices from older designs, thus
> historically we kept the old (block's) compatible only.  This works fine
> and there is no bug here, however guidelines expressed in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/writing-bindings.rst state that:
> 1. Compatibles should be specific.
> 2. We should add new compatibles in case of bugs or features.
> 
> Add compatibles specific to each SoC in front of all old-SoC-like
> compatibles.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> I propose to take the patch through Samsung SoC (me). See cover letter
> for explanation.
> ---
>  .../bindings/i2c/samsung,s3c2410-i2c.yaml     | 22 ++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>



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