netdev - Re: [PATCH v12 3/6] flexcan: Fix up fsl-flexcan device tree binding.

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Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:25:40 -0500
From:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
	U Bhaskar-B22300 <B22300@...escale.com>,
	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>,
	socketcan-core@...ts.berlios.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	PPC list <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 3/6] flexcan: Fix up fsl-flexcan device tree
 binding.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:13:50AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Robin Holt <holt@....com> wrote:
> > Grant,
> >
> > Earlier, you had asked for a more specific name for the compatible
> > property of the Freescale flexcan device.  I still have not gotten a
> > more specific answer.  Hopefully Marc can give you more details about
> > the flexcan implementations.
> 
> If there is no ip core version, then just stick with the
> fsl,<soc>-flexcan name and drop "fsl,flexcan".  Marketing may say
> flexcan is flexcan, but hardware engineers like to change things.
> Trying to be too generic in compatible values will just lead to
> problems in the future.

Thanks,
Robin
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