From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 i2c/for-next] i2c: rcar: Add per-Generation fallback bindings
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:49:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161211214923.GB2552@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481040088-22596-1-git-send-email-horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 05:01:28PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
> SoCs, e.g. Gen 2 and Gen 3. But beyond that it's not clear what the
> relationship between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that
> r8a7790 is older than r8a7791 but that doesn't imply that the latter is a
> descendant of the former or vice versa.
>
> We can, however, by examining the documentation and behaviour of the
> hardware at run-time observe that the current driver implementation appears
> to be compatible with the IP blocks on SoCs within a given generation.
>
> For the above reasons and convenience when enabling new SoCs a
> per-generation fallback compatibility string scheme is being adopted for
> drivers for Renesas SoCs.
>
> Also:
> * Deprecate renesas,i2c-rcar. It seems poorly named as it is only
> compatible with R-Car Gen 1. It also appears unused in mainline.
> * Add some text to describe per-SoC bindings
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Changed '//' comment to '/*' comment and applied to for-next, thanks!
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2016-12-06 16:01 [PATCH v4 i2c/for-next] i2c: rcar: Add per-Generation fallback bindings Simon Horman
2016-12-11 21:49 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
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2016-12-02 14:25 Simon Horman
2016-12-02 14:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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