[RFC V2] devicetree: Dialog Semiconductor consolidate existing vendor prefixes to standardise on 'dlg'

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Jul 22 00:09:27 PDT 2014


On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote:

> From: Opensource [Steve Twiss] <stwiss.opensource at diasemi.com>
> 
> This patch series updates the device tree vendor prefix for
> Dialog Semiconductor.
> 
> Various methods are currently used throughout the kernel: 'diasemi',
> 'dialog' and 'dlg'. Others have also been suggested.
> 
> This patch set aims to consolidate the usage of the vendor prefix to
> use a common standard. The prefix 'dlg' is used.
> 
> Here is my working for justifying this change:
> 
> ./arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi
> 	Has the following entry:
> 	compatible = "dialog,da9063";
> 	However the DA9063 driver does not support device tree yet so
> 	it would be safe to rename this.
> 
> ./arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53-smd.dts
> 	Has the following entry:
> 	compatible = "dialog,da9053", "dialog,da9052";
> 	However, the existing driver files for DA9053 define a different
> 	compatible string with the "dlg" prefix. See the entries below.
> 	None of these would have allowed the "dialog" prefix.
> 	{ .compatible = "dlg,da9052", .data = &da9052_i2c_id[0] },
> 	{ .compatible = "dlg,da9053-aa", .data = &da9052_i2c_id[1] },
> 	{ .compatible = "dlg,da9053-ba", .data = &da9052_i2c_id[2] },
> 	{ .compatible = "dlg,da9053-bb", .data = &da9052_i2c_id[3] },
> 	{ .compatible = "dlg,da9053-bc", .data = &da9052_i2c_id[4] },
> 	In this particular case the change for DA9053 did not match up
> 	with the expected compatibility strings and therefore I have
> 	retained the more general "dlg,da9053" because I do not know
> 	which silicon variant (-aa, -ba, -bb, or -bc) is the correct
> 	one to use.
> 
> ./devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
> 	Has the following entry:
> 	dialog,da9053  DA9053: flexible system level PMIC with multicore support
> 	Instead of depreciating this "dialog" line I am just replacing it
> 	with a "dlg" because the existing driver DA9053 does not support
> 	the dialog keyword.
> 
> ./drivers/mfd/da9055-core.c
> 	Has the following entries for the mfd cells 
> 		.of_compatible = "dialog,da9055-gpio", etc...
> 	In this case, the driver does not actually pass in any platform data
> 	to any of the mfd cells and so they are not actually used
> 	yet in the driver. Nobody else references this information.
> 
> ./devicetree/bindings/regulator/da9210.txt
> 	Has the following two entries in the binding file:
> 	- compatible:	must be "diasemi,da9210"
> 	compatible = "diasemi,da9210";
> 	However the DA9210 driver does not support device tree.
> 
> ./arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7790-lager.dts
> ./arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7791-koelsch.dts
> 	These two files have the following entries:
> 	compatible = "diasemi,da9210";
> 	These both reference the "diasemi,da9210" but the device
> 	driver does not support device tree
> 
> The remaining files in the kernel I have found correctly references
> the driver files compatibility information and so did not need to
> be changed.
> 
> ./devicetree/bindings/mfd/da9052-i2c.txt
> 	- compatible : Should be "dlg,da9052", "dlg,da9053-aa",
> 		 "dlg,da9053-ab", or "dlg,da9053-bb"
> 
> ./devicetree/bindings/mfd/da9055.txt
> 	compatible = "dlg,da9055-pmic";
> 
> ./arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53-voipac-dmm-668.dtsi
> 	compatible = "dlg,da9053-aa", "dlg,da9052";
> 
> ./arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53-qsb.dts
> 	compatible = "dlg,da9053-aa", "dlg,da9052";
> 
> ./devicetree/bindings/sound/da9055.txt
> 	- compatible: "dlg,da9055-codec"
> 	compatible = "dlg,da9055-codec";
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Opensource [Steve Twiss] <stwiss.opensource at diasemi.com>
> ---
> Checks performed with linux-next/next-20140715/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>  trivial-devices.txt       total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 89 lines checked
>  da9210.txt                total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 21 lines checked
>  vendor-prefixes.txt       total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 149 lines checked
>  imx53-smd.dts             total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 279 lines checked
>  imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 357 lines checked
>  r8a7790-lager.dts         total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 403 lines checked
>  r8a7791-koelsch.dts       total: 0 errors, 4 warnings, 461 lines checked
>  da9055-core.c             total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 428 lines checked
> 
> This e-mail is in response to the previous threads here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/11/262
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/341358
> 
> Changes since RFC V1
> - addition of changes to DTS files referencing "diasemi,da9210"
>    arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7790-lager.dts
>    arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7791-koelsch.dts
> 
> This RFC V2 does not answer the response to RFC V1 from Mark Brown:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg347615.html
> 
> This patch applies against linux-next and next-20140715 
> 
> Regards,
> Steve Twiss, Dialog Semiconductor Ltd.
> 
> 
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt    |  2 +-
>  .../devicetree/bindings/regulator/da9210.txt       |  4 ++--
>  .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt        |  1 +
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53-smd.dts                    |  2 +-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi       |  2 +-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7790-lager.dts                |  2 +-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7791-koelsch.dts              |  2 +-
>  drivers/mfd/da9055-core.c                          | 26 ++++++++++----------

For the MFD changes:

  Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>

Which tree is this patch going into?  Do you want me to take it and
supply an IB for the other Maintainers to pull from?

>  8 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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