Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: dt: Reduce fragmentation of <..> placeholders

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Apr 10 2014 - 20:26:16 EST


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Florian Vaussard
> <florian.vaussard@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Placeholders <..> are sometimes used in the devicetree documentation
>> to define family-wide compatible strings (like fsl,<chip>-ipu where
>> chip can be any Freescale SoC).
>>
>> These placeholders are loosly defined. This lead to some
>> fragmentation. Looking at the current placeholders, we have:
>>
>> 3 <board>
>> 32 <chip>
>> 1 <chip name>
>> 1 <mcu-chip>
>> 1 <processor>
>> 30 <soc>
>> 1 <SOC>
>> 1 <soc-family>
>>
>> This patch consolidates this to:
>>
>> 3 <board>
>> 33 <chip>
>> 1 <mcu-chip>
>> 1 <processor>
>> 32 <soc>
>>
>
> I would prefer to consolidate these into just board and chip. If we
> have any oddballs, they can just document the exact strings.

Florian, Do you plan to re-spin this? I can take it for 3.15 if it is
early in the rc's.

Rob
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