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

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 3:50 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?

No, but you only need the fallback if the compatible is
'"sifive,plic0", "riscv,plic0";'.

Rob