Re: [PATCH] nvmem: meson: use generic compatible

[Rob Herring]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 09:39:13PM +0200, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 21:14 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> > Hi Jerome,
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The meson efuse driver seems to be compatible with more SoCs than
> > > initially thought. Let's use the most generic compatible he have in
> > > DT instead of the gxbb specific one
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt | 4 ++--
> > >  drivers/nvmem/meson-efuse.c                               | 2 +-
> > >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt
> > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt
> > > index fafd85bd67a6..0260524292fe 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt
> > > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> > >  = Amlogic eFuse device tree bindings =
> > > 
> > >  Required properties:
> > > -- compatible: should be "amlogic,meson-gxbb-efuse"
> > > +- compatible: should be "amlogic,meson-gx-efuse"

Same comment as for the firmware.

> > 
> > have you checked with the devicetree maintainers how they want the
> > documentation to look like in this case?
> 
> You mean "Should we put every compatible existing (in DT) in the documentation"
> From what I've seen, at least in meson drivers, only the matched ones are
> listed.
> 
> That's a good question though.
> We tend to put soc specific compatible "in case"  we need them later on. Should
> we document those ?

Absolutely.

Rob