Re: [PATCH 1/5] dt-bindings: display: ssd1307fb: Deprecate fbdev compatible strings

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

On 4/8/22 21:19, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

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>>
>> There's also no reason to put the bus interface into the compatible as 
>> the same compatible will work on different buses. But since you want to 
>> add SPI, just using the 'i2c' one will confuse people. For that reason 
>> you could add 'solomon,ssd1305', etc. for both SPI support and I2C DRM.
> 
> That's not really true. There's a reason to add per bus compatible strings
> at least in Linux. And is that there's no information about the bus types
> in module aliases that are reported to user-space for module auto-loading.
>

Forgot to mention that in this particular case it will work but just because
the SPI subsystem always report a module alias of the form "spi:device" even
for devices that are registered through OF.

So having a single "solomon,ssd1306" would work because for I2C the module
alias will be "of:NoledT(null)Csolomon,ssd1306" and for SPI it will be
"spi:ssd1306".

But if ever the SPI subsystem is fixed to report proper OF module aliases
things will break. And since the DT bindings is an ABI, it's safer to have
"-i2c" and "-spi" compatible strings variants.

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat