linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/17] dt-bindings: pinctrl: samsung: add specific compatibles for existing SoC

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdaSPTjjPA=TS-WbOb3E=TabtP6MFEx6Q+Dar-Mh=EtknQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:04:59 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Cc:     David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/17] dt-bindings: pinctrl: samsung: add specific
 compatibles for existing SoC

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 11:44 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org> wrote:

> Samsung Exynos SoC reuses several devices from older designs, thus
> historically we kept the old (block's) compatible only.  This works fine
> and there is no bug here, however guidelines expressed in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/writing-bindings.rst state that:
> 1. Compatibles should be specific.
> 2. We should add new compatibles in case of bugs or features.
>
> Add compatibles specific to each SoC in front of all old-SoC-like
> compatibles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>

This is more formally correct indeed.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij