[PATCH v4 3/3] PCI: imx6: Add support for i.MX6 PCIe controller

Jingoo Han jg1.han at samsung.com
Mon Sep 16 18:53:19 EDT 2013


On Monday, September 16, 2013 6:02 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:54:32PM +0800, Sean Cross wrote:
> > >>@@ -116,6 +116,22 @@
> > >>  			arm,data-latency = <4 2 3>;
> > >>  		};
> > >>+		pcie: pcie at 0x01000000 {
> > >>+			compatible = "fsl,imx6-pcie", "snps,dw-pcie";
> > >We generally use particular SoC name to specify the compatible string.
> > >So "fsl,imx6q-pcie" will be more appropriate.
> > Any reason to specify imx6q in particular?  It's also present on the
> > imx6d, imx6dl, and imx6s (basically, everything but the imx6sl).
> 
> The compatible naming is not about coverage but versioning.  We
> generally encode the name of the SoC that firstly integrates the block
> to specify the version.
> 

Yes, you're right. :-)
The name of the first SoC would be used.

Best regards,
Jingoo Han




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