Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] dt-bindings: arm: ti: add toradex,verdin-am62 et al.

From: Nishanth Menon
Date: Wed May 24 2023 - 15:11:29 EST


On 12:48-20230524, Andrew Davis wrote:

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> In fact I'm not sure we get much value at all out of top level whole-SoC compatible
> strings. Maybe we did when there was matching in kernel to do device specific fixups,
> but that isn't really used much in ARM64.

If you are arguing about const: ti,am625 - there is a bunch more other
S/w systems that use compatibles for various purposes in addition to
usage in userspace (test systems etc) that benefit. Unless there is a
ARM64 wide trend to drop it, I don't see a reason to have a discussion
on that.

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