linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: mvebu: split SolidRun CuBox into variants

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Message-ID: <20140527163811.GT8664@titan.lakedaemon.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 May 2014 12:38:11 -0400
From:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
To:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: mvebu: split SolidRun CuBox into variants

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 06:30:41PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
...
> About the board specific compatibles, I am not so sure if we should
> keep them at all. "solidrun,cubox" for all three variants should be
> enough. checkpatch is already choking on every unknown compatible it
> sees and documenting each individual board clearly doesn't scale well.

Yeah, I saw that conversation.  I'm inclined to keep the board
compatible strings because they are a useful human readable globally
unique board identifier.  I suggest we fix checkpatch to not barf on the
board compatible strings.

thx,

Jason.
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