On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 01:01:06PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> On 13/01/2020 11:42, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The idiomatic approach appears to be for individual board vendors
> > to allocate IDs, you do end up with multiple IDs from multiple
> > vendors for the same thing.

> But I am not sure how appropriate that same approach would be for some 3rd
> party memory part which we're simply wiring up on our board. Maybe it is.

It seems to be quite common for Intel reference designs to assign
Intel IDs to non-Intel parts on the board (which is where I
became aware of this practice).  

> > In general there's not really much standardizaiton for devices,
> > the bindings that do exist aren't really centrally documented and
> > the Windows standard is just to have the basic device
> > registration in the firmware and do all properties based on
> > quirking based on DMI information.

> OK, so there is always DMI. I hoped to avoid this sort of thing in the linux
> driver :)

Yes, there are some merits to an approach like that.