linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/5] dt-bindings: at24: consistently document the compatible property

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Message-Id: <20171227135054.29690-2-brgl@bgdev.pl>
Date:   Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:50:50 +0100
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Divagar Mohandass <divagar.mohandass@...el.com>,
        Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
Cc:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/5] dt-bindings: at24: consistently document the compatible property

Current description of the compatible property for at24 is quite vague.

State explicitly that any "<manufacturer>,<model>" pair is accepted as
long as one of the listed strings is used as fallback.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt | 37 +++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt
index cbc80e194ac6..b5ce5a247554 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt
@@ -2,28 +2,21 @@ EEPROMs (I2C)
 
 Required properties:
 
-  - compatible : should be "<manufacturer>,<type>", like these:
-
-	"atmel,24c00", "atmel,24c01", "atmel,24c02", "atmel,24c04",
-	"atmel,24c08", "atmel,24c16", "atmel,24c32", "atmel,24c64",
-	"atmel,24c128", "atmel,24c256", "atmel,24c512", "atmel,24c1024"
-
-	"catalyst,24c32"
-
-	"microchip,24c128"
-
-	"ramtron,24c64"
-
-	"renesas,r1ex24002"
-
-	The following manufacturers values have been deprecated:
-	"at", "at24"
-
-	 If there is no specific driver for <manufacturer>, a generic
-	 device with <type> and manufacturer "atmel" should be used.
-	 Possible types are:
-	 "24c00", "24c01", "24c02", "24c04", "24c08", "24c16", "24c32", "24c64",
-	 "24c128", "24c256", "24c512", "24c1024", "spd"
+  - compatible: must be a "<manufacturer>,<model>" pair with one of the
+                following values as fallback:
+
+                "atmel,24c00",
+                "atmel,24c01",
+                "atmel,24c02",
+                "atmel,24c04",
+                "atmel,24c08",
+                "atmel,24c16",
+                "atmel,24c32",
+                "atmel,24c64",
+                "atmel,24c128",
+                "atmel,24c256",
+                "atmel,24c512",
+                "atmel,24c1024"
 
   - reg : the I2C address of the EEPROM
 
-- 
2.15.1