[PATCH 03/17] dt-bindings: i2c: samsung, s3c2410-i2c: add specific compatibles for existing SoC
Linus Walleij
linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Nov 9 20:06:50 UTC 2023
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 11:44 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org> wrote:
> Samsung Exynos SoC reuses several devices from older designs, thus
> historically we kept the old (block's) compatible only. This works fine
> and there is no bug here, however guidelines expressed in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/writing-bindings.rst state that:
> 1. Compatibles should be specific.
> 2. We should add new compatibles in case of bugs or features.
>
> Add compatibles specific to each SoC in front of all old-SoC-like
> compatibles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org>
Makes perfect sense to me:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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