Re: [PATCH] gpio: rcar: Remove redundant compatible values

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:36 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Prabhakar,
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 4:31 PM Lad Prabhakar
> <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The mandatory compatible values 'renesas,rcar-gen{1,2,3}-gpio' have been
> > already added to all the respective R-Car Gen{1,2,3} SoC DTSI files,
> > remove the redundant device specific values from the driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-rcar.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-rcar.c
> > @@ -392,33 +392,6 @@ static const struct gpio_rcar_info gpio_rcar_info_gen2 = {
> >
> >  static const struct of_device_id gpio_rcar_of_table[] = {
> >         {
> > -               .compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7743",
> > -               /* RZ/G1 GPIO is identical to R-Car Gen2. */
> > -               .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen2,
> > -       }, {
> > -               .compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7790",
> > -               .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen2,
> > -       }, {
> > -               .compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7791",
> > -               .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen2,
> > -       }, {
> > -               .compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7792",
> > -               .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen2,
> > -       }, {
> > -               .compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7793",
> > -               .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen2,
> > -       }, {
> > -               .compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7794",
> > -               .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen2,
> > -       }, {
> > -               .compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7795",
> > -               /* Gen3 GPIO is identical to Gen2. */
> > -               .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen2,
> > -       }, {
> > -               .compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7796",
> > -               /* Gen3 GPIO is identical to Gen2. */
> > -               .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen2,
> > -       }, {
> >                 .compatible = "renesas,rcar-gen1-gpio",
> >                 .data = &gpio_rcar_info_gen1,
> >         }, {
>
> The reason the driver matches on these SoC-specific compatible values is
> that originally the family-specific compatible values did not exist, and
> the device nodes in the initial DTS files thus did not use them.  The
> family-specific compatible values were added to the DTS files in v4.15.
> However, as this was backported to all v4.14-based R-Car BSP releases
> (3.6.0 and later), I think it is safe to apply this.
>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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Patch applied, thanks!

Bartosz