netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: imx6: tag boards that have the HW workaround for ERR006687

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Message-ID: <20160607124650.1e69c658@jclayton-pc>
Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:46:50 -0700
From:	Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@...il.com>
To:	Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, patchwork-lst@...gutronix.de,
	kernel@...gutronix.de, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: imx6: tag boards that have the HW
 workaround for ERR006687

On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:25:06 +0200
Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 01.06.2016, 17:17 +0100 schrieb Russell King - ARM
> Linux:
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 05:29:43PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:  
> > > @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
> > >  	phy-reset-gpios = <&gpio3 31 0>;
> > >  	interrupts-extended = <&gpio1 6 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > >  			      <&intc 0 119 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> > > +	fsl,err006687-war-present;  
> > 

Why can't we just have the quirk detect the interrupts-extended
property, which is not present on boards without the workaround.
Wouldn't that be better? No dts change needed.

> > war?  Any reason not to spell it out, or use the more natural
> > abbreviation "wa"?
> >   
> Apparently I've read too many documents where WAR is the abbreviation
> for workaround, so it felt completely natural to me. I agree that it
> would make sense to just spell it out to avoid any confusion.
> 
> Regards,
> Lucas
> 
> 
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