Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] spi: add driver for Rockchip RK3xxx SoCs integrated SPI

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:08:41AM +0200, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Am Montag, 7. Juli 2014, 09:42:52 schrieb addy ke:

> > > Your DT binding defined some additional compatible strings, please add
> > > those to the driver.

> citing Mark Rutland (one of the dt maintainers):

> --
>   That's why I said in addition to the common one. I'd only expect the
>   driver to look for "rockchip,rk3066-spi", but a DTB could have:
> 
>         compatible = "rockchip,rk3188-spi", "rockchip,rk3066-spi";
> 
>   Seeding the DTBs with the extra strings early makes it more likely that
>   we can rely on them later. If we don't happen to need them they only
>   clutter some DTBs.
> --

> so it looks like the driver is doing the right thing right now

The driver will work but it's better to list the strings that are
supported explicitly if only to document that there's nothing specific
Linux should be doing for them.

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