Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: spi: renesas,sh-msiof: Add r8a7742 support

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Jun 11 2020 - 04:50:12 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 09:18:19PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:49 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I'm much more comfortable explicitly listing the new compatible so that
> > even if someone makes a DT that doesn't bother listing the fallbacks
> > things will work.

> Adding all of them would cause even more churn when adding support for
> a new SoC... There are already more than 700 "renesas," compatible
> values documented that are not directly matched by drivers.

I'm not sure it's a particular concern, especially since you'll be
sending this stuff in the same series as a bindings update and an extra
patch in a series makes very little difference.

> Nowadays we have "make dtbs_check", so if a DTS doesn't conform to the
> binding, it will be flagged.

For things that are upstream.

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