Re: [PATCH] drm: rcar-du: Add r8a77980 support
From: Kieran Bingham
Date: Thu Sep 12 2019 - 08:11:44 EST
On 12/09/2019 13:03, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Kieran,
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 12:26 PM Kieran Bingham
> <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> (pulling in +Geert for his opinion on compatible string usages)
>>
>> On 12/09/2019 11:00, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:> Hello!
>>> On 11.09.2019 22:25, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>>>> Add direct support for the r8a77980 (V3H).
>>>>
>>>> The V3H shares a common, compatible configuration with the r8a77970
>>>> (V3M) so that device info structure is reused.
>>>
>>> Do we really need to add yet another compatible in this case?
>>> I just added r8a77970 to the compatible prop in the r8a77980 DT. That's why
>>> a patch like this one didn't get posted by me.
>>
>> It's not just about the compatible string for me here,
>>
>> There is no indication in the driver that it supports the r8a77980, and
>> no comment in the driver to explain that the r8a77980 is shared by the
>> r8a77970.
>>
>> This patch makes that explicit at the driver.
>>
>> Also - I am considering sending a patch (that I've already created
>> anyway) to remove the r8a77970 reference from the
>>
>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a77980.dtsi file.
>>
>> This is the *only* non r8a77980 reference in this file, so it seems very
>> out of place.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> In fact more so than that - except for a seemingly glaring typo, that
>> I'll investigate and send a patch for next, this is the *only* cross-soc
>> compatible reference:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> files=r8a77*.dtsi
>>
>> for f in $files;
>> do
>> soc=`basename $f .dtsi | sed 's/-.*//'`
>> echo "F: $f soc: $soc";
>>
>> # Find all references to all socs, then hide 'this' soc
>> grep r8a77 $f | grep -v $soc
>
> This hides the complete line. So you better use e.g.
>
> sed -e "s/$soc/soc/ig" $f | grep -i r8a
Aha yes, excellent point! (I'm glad I posted my working)
>
> instead. No new offenders, though.
Phew, I still got the right answer :-D
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Kieran