Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] mfd: retu: Add OF device ID table

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Apr 03 2017 - 18:20:21 EST


On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:45:14AM -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Lee,
>
> On 04/03/2017 07:15 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >>
> >> +static const struct of_device_id retu_of_match[] = {
> >> + { .compatible = "nokia,retu-mfd" },
> >> + { .compatible = "nokia,tahvo-mfd" },
> >
> > Please drop the "-mfd".
> >
>
> Yes, I also didn't like it but I didn't want to change it since that would
> mean that backward compatiblity and bisect-ability will be broken by this
> change.
>
> In other words, just adding a vendor prefix won't cause an issue if patches
> are merged independently since if DTS patches are merged before, the driver
> will still lookup using the I2C device ID table. And if the drivers patches
> are picked before, the DTS will match using the OF device ID table.
>
> But changing to "nokia,retu" and "nokia,tahvo" means that you will need to
> pick all patches and also that the DTS and drivers changes will have to be
> done in the same patch. If you are OK with that, then I can change in the
> next version.

tahvo is not documented nor used in any dts (in the kernel at least).
retu is used by 1 board and happened to work, but was never documented.
So I think it is okay to change unless the N800 folks object.

Rob