Re: [PATCH v5 01/20] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: Document vendor to be used and deprecated ones

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 11:31:14 EST


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The at24 driver allows to register I2C EEPROM chips using different vendor
> and devices, but the I2C subsystem does not take the vendor into account
> when matching using the I2C table since it only has device entries.
>
> But when matching using an OF table, both the vendor and device has to be
> taken into account so the driver defines only a set of compatible strings
> using the "atmel" vendor as a generic fallback for compatible I2C devices.
>
> Document in the Device Tree binding document that this manufacturer should
> be used as the generic fallback. Also document the deprecated vendors.
>
> Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v5:
> - Only deprecate the atmel variants at25 and at (Geert Uytterhoeven).
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Document the manufacturers that have been deprecated (Rob Herring).
>
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>