Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: Fix compatible strings for Armada 3720 boards

From: Pali Rohár
Date: Mon Aug 08 2022 - 16:39:46 EST


On Monday 08 August 2022 22:33:30 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > PING?
>
> It is too late for the merge window.
>
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-372x.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-372x.dtsi
> > > index 5ce55bdbb995..02ae1e153288 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-372x.dtsi
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-372x.dtsi
> > > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
> > >
> > > / {
> > > model = "Marvell Armada 3720 SoC";
> > > - compatible = "marvell,armada3720", "marvell,armada3710";
> > > + compatible = "marvell,armada3720", "marvell,armada3700";
>
> Does it make sense to have a compatible here? The board .dts should
> provide it. And if the board does not provide it, we probably want the
> board to not boot because it does not have a compatible.
>
> Andrew

Sounds like there should not be a compatible string and model string.

I can prepare a followup patch to remove those strings from SoC dtsi file.