linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: dts: renesas: r9a09g011: Fix I2C SoC specific strings

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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2022 10:06:34 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro.jz@...esas.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
        Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        Chris Paterson <Chris.Paterson2@...esas.com>,
        Biju Das <biju.das@...renesas.com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@...ndi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: dts: renesas: r9a09g011: Fix I2C SoC
 specific strings

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 5:50 PM Fabrizio Castro
<fabrizio.castro.jz@...esas.com> wrote:
> The preferred form for Renesas' compatible strings is:
> "<vendor>,<family>-<module>"
>
> Somehow the compatible string for the r9a09g011 I2C IP was upstreamed
> as renesas,i2c-r9a09g011 instead of renesas,r9a09g011-i2c, which
> is really confusing, especially considering the generic fallback
> is renesas,rzv2m-i2c.
>
> The first user of renesas,i2c-r9a09g011 in the kernel is not yet in
> a kernel release, it will be in v6.1, therefore it can still be
> fixed in v6.1.
> Even if we don't fix it before v6.2, I don't think there is any
> harm in making such a change.
>
> s/renesas,i2c-r9a09g011/renesas,r9a09g011-i2c/g for consistency.
>
> Fixes: 54ac6794df9d ("arm64: dts: renesas: r9a09g011: Add i2c nodes")
> Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro.jz@...esas.com>
> ---
>
> v2 - Improved changelog, as suggested by Geert and Krzysztof

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
i.e. will queue in renesas-devel for v6.2.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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