Re: [PATCH RFC v3 5/9] dt-bindings: board: Document board-ids for Qualcomm devices

[Elliot Berman]

On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 06:08:46PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:38:02AM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:
> > +
> > +allOf:
> > +  # either describe soc or soc-version; it's confusing to have both
> 
> Why not just use the one that has the most information and discard the
> others? If your dtb picker for this platform doesn't care about the soc
> version, then just don't look at that cell?

The dtb picker for the platform doesn't know whether to care about the
SoC version/platform version/whatever. That's a property of the DTB
itself and I don't think it makes much sense to bake that into the DTB
picker which would otherwise be unaware of this.

> 
> Likewise for platform and PMIC, why can't you ignore the cells you don't
> care about, rather than having a new property for each variant? Nothing
> in this patch explains why multiple variants are required rather than
> just dealing with the most informational.
>

Sure, I will explain in future revision.

- Elliot