linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] spi: mediatek: Add spi bus for Mediatek MT8173

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 12:10:51 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>
Cc:	leilk liu <leilk.liu@...iatek.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, srv_heupstream@...iatek.com,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Hongzhou Yang <hongzhou.yang@...iatek.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@...iatek.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] spi: mediatek: Add spi bus for Mediatek MT8173

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:26:06PM +0800, Yingjoe Chen wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 17:05 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > > There were three compatible strings listed in the DT binding but only
> > > > two here.

> > > And I test it's ok on MT8135 platform. So I add struct of_device_id
> > > mtk_spi_of_match like this in spi driver code.

> > You should list all the compatibles documented in the binding here, if
> > some of them are the same just have them map to a single constant.

> Just for clarification. If we want to add spi support for a new soc, say
> mt8127, which we think is compatible to mt6589. Since it may turn out we
> need special handling for this soc latter, it is suggested to write
> compatible like this in mt8127.dtsi:

>    compatible = "mediatek,mt8127-spi",
>  	        "mediatek,mt6589-spi";

> Device tree binding should list all possible compatible string in .dts,
> so we'll have to add that to binding as well.

>      - mediatek,mt6589-spi: for mt6589 platforms
> +    - mediatek,mt8127-spi: for mt8127 platforms

> Then we'll also need to add this to source code to reflect this.

> 	{ .compatible = "mediatek,mt6589-spi", .data = (void *)COMPAT_MT6589},
> +	{ .compatible = "mediatek,mt8127-spi", .data = (void *)COMPAT_MT6589},

> This seems to introduce lots of trivial patches just to add a compatible
> device to me...

Yes, but that's how DT works and as you say these patches are all
trivial so it's not like they take any appreciable effort.

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