linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: RISC-V PLIC documentation

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Date:   Thu, 2 Aug 2018 11:55:27 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: RISC-V PLIC
        documentation

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:26:31PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Not really my problem that they didn't follow the process and upstream
> their binding first. But this alone is just a string identifier, so I
> don't really care that much. If things are really a mess, then the
> next implementations will have to have better compatible strings. More
> likely, I'll just see folks trying to add various properties to deal
> with all the differences.
> 
> You could always define a better compatible and leave 'riscv,plic0' as
> a fallback to avoid breaking things.

Is there any better way to define a compatible other than having
duplicate IRQCHIP_DECLARE() statements?