Re: [PATCH 10/13] ARM: dts: vt8500: Use generic compatibles for EHCI

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Thu Apr 17 2025 - 01:34:31 EST


On 16/04/2025 10:21, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> VIA/WonderMedia SoCs don't have anything special about their EHCI
> controllers: in fact, vendor provided kernels just use the

It does not have to do anything special - dedicated compatible properly
describes the hardware.

> generic PCI driver by emulating a virtual PCI bus with fixed MMIO

PCI? But this is USB.

> mappings just to bind the existing driver as-is. So switch to the
> generic compatible to save further additions to bindings.
>
> Note that these devices have only ever supported appended-DTB boot,
> so changing the compatible should not affect any existing users.

And other users of the DTS?

I don't see benefits in this patch.

Best regards,
Krzysztof