linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 11/14] Documentation: dt: binding: omap: am43x timer

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Date:	Wed, 29 May 2013 21:17:38 +0100
From:	Jon Hunter <jgchunter@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
CC:	Afzal Mohammed <afzal@...com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Benoit Cousson <benoit.cousson@...aro.org>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/14] Documentation: dt: binding: omap: am43x timer


On 28/05/13 23:05, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 05/28/2013 03:25 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>
>> On 27/05/13 15:37, Afzal Mohammed wrote:
>>> AM43x timer bindings.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Afzal Mohammed <afzal@...com>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/timer.txt | 2 ++
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/timer.txt
>>> index d02e27c..70cb398 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/timer.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/timer.txt
>>> @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Required properties:
>>>  			ti,omap5430-timer (applicable to OMAP543x devices)
>>>  			ti,am335x-timer	(applicable to AM335x devices)
>>>  			ti,am335x-timer-1ms (applicable to AM335x devices)
>>> +			"ti,am4372-timer-1ms", "ti,am335x-timer-1ms" for AM43x 1ms timer
>>> +			"ti,am4372-timer", "ti,am335x-timer" for AM43x timers other than 1ms one
>>>  
>>>  - reg:			Contains timer register address range (base address and
>>>  			length).
>>
>> If you are adding more compatibility strings, then this implies that the
>> AM43x timers are not 100% compatible with any other device listed (such
>> as am335x or any omap device). That's fine but you should state that in
>> the changelog. If the AM43x timer registers are 100% compatible with
>> existing devices you should not add these.
> 
> I'm not sure that's true; .dts files should always include a compatible
> value that describes the most specific model of the HW, plus any
> baseline compatible value that the HW is compatible with. This allows
> any required quirks/fixes/... to be applied for the specific HW model
> later even if nobody knows right now they'll be needed. Hence, defining
> new compatible values doesn't necessarily mean incompatible HW.

Yes that does seem to agree with what Grant had told me in the past [1].
So this is ok then. However, I still think that the changelog needs to
be vastly improved and more explicit about the changes.

Cheers
Jon

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/90551/focus=26447

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