From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] phy: rcar-gen2, rcar-gen3-usb2: add fallback binding
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:17:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57062CB8.10101@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160325020948.GB31681@verge.net.au>
Hi,
On Friday 25 March 2016 07:39 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:58:39AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>> Add fallback compatibility strings for rcar phy drivers.
>>
>> 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 its 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 being adopted for
>> drivers for Renesas SoCs.
>
> Hi Kishon,
>
> I am wondering if you could consider applying this series.
This doesn't appear to be a fix. So will be queuing this for the next merge window.
Thanks
Kishon
>
> Thanks!
>
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> * Added Acks
>> * Corrected whitespace in examples
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> * Update new compatibility strings to match the preferred scheme for
>> ordering elements
>> * Rebase
>>
>> Simon Horman (2):
>> phy: rcar-gen2: add fallback binding
>> phy: rcar-gen3-usb2: add fallback binding
>>
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rcar-gen2-phy.txt | 8 +++++++-
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rcar-gen3-phy-usb2.txt | 10 ++++++++--
>> drivers/phy/phy-rcar-gen2.c | 1 +
>> drivers/phy/phy-rcar-gen3-usb2.c | 1 +
>> 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.1.4
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-07 1:58 [PATCH v3 0/2] phy: rcar-gen2, rcar-gen3-usb2: add fallback binding Simon Horman
2016-03-07 1:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] phy: rcar-gen2: " Simon Horman
2016-03-07 1:58 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] phy: rcar-gen3-usb2: " Simon Horman
2016-03-25 2:09 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] phy: rcar-gen2, " Simon Horman
2016-04-07 9:47 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I [this message]
2016-04-29 8:28 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
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