Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: mvebu: Fix missing binding documentation for Armada 38x

[Jason Cooper]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 06:40:43PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> For the Armada 380 and Armada 385 SoCs, the common bindings for those
> 2 SoCs, was forgotten. This patch add the documentation for the
> marvell,aramda38x property.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> --
> Hi,
> 
> This fix should be merged in 3.16. For 3.15 I am not sure as it is not
> a regression.
> 
> Changelog:
> v1->v2
> 
> - Reformulate to make clear that we will need marvell,armada38x _and_ a
> SoC specific string. For consistency I duplicated what we have done in
> armada-370-xp.txt
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Gregory
> 
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/armada-38x.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/armada-38x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/armada-38x.txt
> index 11f2330a6554..fa08760046df 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/armada-38x.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/armada-38x.txt
> @@ -6,5 +6,18 @@ following property:
>  
>  Required root node property:
>  
> - - compatible: must contain either "marvell,armada380" or
> -   "marvell,armada385" depending on the variant of the SoC being used.
> +compatible: must contain "marvell,armada38x"

I agree with Sergei on this one.  We generally avoid wildcards in
compatible strings.  Is there a use case where specifying one of the
below wouldn't be sufficient?

> +
> +In addition, boards using the Marvell Armada 380 SoC shall have the
> +following property:
> +
> +Required root node property:
> +
> +compatible: must contain "marvell,armada380"
> +
> +In addition, boards using the Marvell Armada 385 SoC shall have the
> +following property:
> +
> +Required root node property:
> +
> +compatible: must contain "marvell,armada385"

thx,

Jason.
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