linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] ARM: msm: Add support for MSM8974

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Message-ID: <20130802042103.GA28826@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Thu, 1 Aug 2013 21:21:03 -0700
From:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
To:	Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>,
	Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@...eaurora.org>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] ARM: msm: Add support for MSM8974

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:36:38PM -0700, Rohit Vaswani wrote:
>On 8/1/2013 7:29 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 08/01/2013 07:23 PM, Rohit Vaswani wrote:
>>> This patch adds basic board support for MSM8974 which
>>> belongs to the Snapdragon 800 family.
>>> For now, just support a basic machine with device tree.
>>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/msm8974.dts     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> That's odd. If this is support for an SoC, why not a *.dtsi file rather
>> than *.dts?
>
>I am not sure why I would need a dtsi if I am just adding the 1 file for
>the SoC support ?

The .dts file should be for a specific board, not a general SoC.  Note
the names of the other board .dts files for MSM.  We'll probably want
a msm8974.dtsi at some point, though.

David

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