Re: [PATCH 6/6] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: RISC-V PLIC documentation

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Aug 02 2018 - 12:03:15 EST


On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:26:31PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Not really my problem that they didn't follow the process and upstream
> their binding first. But this alone is just a string identifier, so I
> don't really care that much. If things are really a mess, then the
> next implementations will have to have better compatible strings. More
> likely, I'll just see folks trying to add various properties to deal
> with all the differences.
>
> You could always define a better compatible and leave 'riscv,plic0' as
> a fallback to avoid breaking things.

Is there any better way to define a compatible other than having
duplicate IRQCHIP_DECLARE() statements?