linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] phy: rcar-gen2, rcar-gen3-usb2: add fallback binding

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Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:58:09 +0530
From:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
CC:	Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] phy: rcar-gen2, rcar-gen3-usb2: add fallback
 binding



On Thursday 07 April 2016 03:17 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Friday 25 March 2016 07:39 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:58:39AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>>> Add fallback compatibility strings for rcar phy drivers.
>>>
>>> In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
>>> SoCs, e.g. Gen 2 and Gen 3. But beyond that its not clear what the
>>> relationship between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that
>>> r8a7790 is older than r8a7791 but that doesn't imply that the latter is a
>>> descendant of the former or vice versa.
>>>
>>> We can, however, by examining the documentation and behaviour of the
>>> hardware at run-time observe that the current driver implementation appears
>>> to be compatible with the IP blocks on SoCs within a given generation.
>>>
>>> For the above reasons and convenience when enabling new SoCs a
>>> per-generation fallback compatibility string scheme being adopted for
>>> drivers for Renesas SoCs.
>>
>> Hi Kishon,
>>
>> I am wondering if you could consider applying this series.
> 
> This doesn't appear to be a fix. So will be queuing this for the next merge window.

merged, thanks.

-Kishon

> 
> Thanks
> Kishon
> 
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>>
>>> Changes in v3:
>>> * Added Acks
>>> * Corrected whitespace in examples
>>>
>>> Changes in v2:
>>> * Update new compatibility strings to match the preferred scheme for
>>>   ordering elements
>>> * Rebase
>>>
>>> Simon Horman (2):
>>>   phy: rcar-gen2: add fallback binding
>>>   phy: rcar-gen3-usb2: add fallback binding
>>>
>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rcar-gen2-phy.txt      |  8 +++++++-
>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rcar-gen3-phy-usb2.txt | 10 ++++++++--
>>>  drivers/phy/phy-rcar-gen2.c                                  |  1 +
>>>  drivers/phy/phy-rcar-gen3-usb2.c                             |  1 +
>>>  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 2.1.4
>>>