Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: mach-moxart: add MOXA ART SoC files

[Olof Johansson]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
arch.h>
>> +
>> +static const char * const moxart_dt_compat[] = {
>> +     "moxa,moxart-uc-7112-lx",
>> +     NULL,
>> +};
>> +
>> +DT_MACHINE_START(MOXART, "MOXA UC-7112-LX")
>> +     .dt_compat              = moxart_dt_compat,
>> +MACHINE_END
>
> If the .dt_compat fields is the only field in the machine descriptor,
> you can leave out the entire descriptor!
>
> Olof, do you have a preference to how we want to handle this? The
> only advantage of having this file at all is to have the
> "MOXA UC-7112-LX" string in /proc/cpuinfo.
> Should we just remove the entire directory or leave it as the trivial
> file above?

I sort of presumed that there might be need for _some_ platform code
later on, just not quite yet, so I didn't want to be quite that
drastic. I suppose leaving it with the trivial file for now is OK, and
we can make a sweeping change down the road in case we want to clean
up and consolidate all the trivial platforms.


-Olof
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