Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] MIPS: mscc: add ocelot PCB123 device tree

From: James Hogan
Date: Tue Feb 27 2018 - 11:37:09 EST


On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 04:54:44PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 14/02/2018 at 17:00:42 +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:12:38AM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > Add a device tree for the Microsemi Ocelot PCB123 evaluation board.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Please Cc DT folk.
> >
>
> I can do but again, I don't think they care.
>
> > > diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/dts/mscc/ocelot_pcb123.dts b/arch/mips/boot/dts/mscc/ocelot_pcb123.dts
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..42bd404471f6
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/arch/mips/boot/dts/mscc/ocelot_pcb123.dts
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT) */
> > > +/* Copyright (c) 2017 Microsemi Corporation */
> > > +
> > > +/dts-v1/;
> > > +
> > > +#include "ocelot.dtsi"
> > > +
> > > +/ {
> > > + compatible = "mscc,ocelot-pcb123", "mscc,ocelot";
> >
> > Should mscc,ocelot-pcb123 be added to the mscc DT binding documentation
> > in the other patch?
> >
>
> On ARM at least, we don't document the board compatibles because this
> will be a huge list without much benefit as they are mostly unused.
> Still, it is nice to have in case something specific needs to be done
> for a particular board (and hopefully this never happens).
>
> also, I don't think any other MIPS boards are documented bu if you
> insist, I can either add it in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/mscc.txt or create a new file to
> list all the mips board compatibles.

I don't insist. It was a genuine question :-)

Thanks
James

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