linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] dt-bindings: bluetooth: add 'qcom,local-bd-address-broken'

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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:22:38 +0100
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	cros-qcom-dts-watchers@...omium.org,
	Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
	Balakrishna Godavarthi <quic_bgodavar@...cinc.com>,
	Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
	Rocky Liao <quic_rjliao@...cinc.com>,
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] dt-bindings: bluetooth: add
 'qcom,local-bd-address-broken'

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:10:08AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 8:29 AM Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org> wrote:

> > +  qcom,local-bd-address-broken: true
> > +    description: >
> > +      boot firmware is incorrectly passing the address in big-endian order
> 
> Personally, I feel like "qcom,local-bd-address-backwards" or
> "qcom,local-bd-address-swapped" would be more documenting but I don't
> feel super strongly about it. I guess "broken" makes it more obvious
> that this is not just a normal variant that someone should use.

Yeah, that is precisely why I chose that name, to avoid having people
think this is something they can just pick and choose for their driver.

As is repeatedly made clear, this needs to be obvious from the name, as
apparently not many people bother to look up the documentation.

> If DT binding folks are happy, I'm happy enough with this solution.

> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>

Thanks for reviewing.

Johan