From: "Mohammed, Afzal" <afzal@ti.com>
To: "Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@ti.com>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
Jon Hunter <jgchunter@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
"devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org"
<devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Benoit Cousson <benoit.cousson@linaro.org>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 11/14] Documentation: dt: binding: omap: am43x timer
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 07:49:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C8443D0743D26F4388EA172BF4E2A7A93EB1238B@DBDE04.ent.ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A60427.6010409@ti.com>
Hi Benoit,
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 19:05:35, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> And in this case, you do not introduce any new revision.
>
> There is no point to update the binding each time we add a new SoC
> variant that will contain the exact same IP.
>
> I think it will mainly confuse the user that will wonder what is
> different in that version compare to the previous one, moreover we can
> end up with hundred of entries for the exact same IP for nothing.
>
> The real problem is due to the introduction of the SoC name in the
> device compatible name. That does introduced a SoC level information
> that is mostly irrelevant at device level. I can understand why it was
> done for practical aspect when the IP version is not well identified,
> but that can lead to this proliferation of new pointless bindings.
As opinions on $subject seems not yet to be conclusive, I plan to
rebase DTS patch (14/14) over your 'for_3.11/dts' branch (that makes
use of C preprocessor on OMAP DTS) and post separately dropping
11-14 patches, is that okay ?
Regards
Afzal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-03 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-27 14:33 [PATCH v2 00/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x initial support Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] ARM: OMAP2+: separate out OMAP4 restart Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: Kconfig Afzal Mohammed
2013-06-12 17:12 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-06-13 6:58 ` Mohammed, Afzal
2013-06-13 9:54 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-06-13 10:02 ` Mohammed, Afzal
2013-06-13 10:17 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-05-27 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: kbuild Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM437x: SoC revision detection Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: static mapping Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: early init Afzal Mohammed
2013-06-12 17:14 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-05-27 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: SRAM base and size Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: basic dt support Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:37 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] Documentation: dt: binding: omap: am43x timer Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-28 21:25 ` Jon Hunter
2013-05-28 22:05 ` Stephen Warren
2013-05-29 8:06 ` Mohammed, Afzal
[not found] ` <C8443D0743D26F4388EA172BF4E2A7A93EAFB044-yXqyApvAXouIQmiDNMet8wC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2013-05-29 8:39 ` Benoit Cousson
2013-05-29 9:58 ` Mohammed, Afzal
2013-05-29 13:35 ` Benoit Cousson
2013-06-03 7:49 ` Mohammed, Afzal [this message]
2013-06-03 9:53 ` Benoit Cousson
2013-05-29 15:27 ` Stephen Warren
2013-05-30 11:44 ` Benoit Cousson
2013-05-29 20:17 ` Jon Hunter
[not found] ` <cover.1369658705.git.afzal-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2013-05-27 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: soc_is support Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: GP or HS ? Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:37 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] Documentation: dt: binding: omap: am43x counter Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-28 21:26 ` Jon Hunter
2013-05-29 8:08 ` Mohammed, Afzal
2013-05-27 14:37 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] Documentation: dt: binding: serial: omap: am43x Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-27 14:37 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] ARM: dts: AM43x: initial support Afzal Mohammed
2013-05-29 8:53 ` Benoit Cousson
[not found] ` <51A5C1F3.2070605-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2013-05-29 8:57 ` Florian Vaussard
2013-05-29 9:05 ` Benoit Cousson
2013-06-04 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x " Mohammed, Afzal
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