Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] dt-bindings: at24: add a missing compatible

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Thu Dec 21 2017 - 09:59:01 EST


2017-12-21 15:25 GMT+01:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2017-12-21 15:08 GMT+01:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> "atmel,spd" is reported by checkpatch as undocumented in the device
>>>> tree bindings. Add it to the list of supported compatible strings.
>>>
>>>> "atmel,24c00",
>>>> "atmel,24c01",
>>>> "atmel,24c02",
>>>> + "atmel,spd",
>>>> "atmel,24c04",
>>>> "atmel,24c08",
>>>> "atmel,24c16",
>>>
>>> Sounds alogical to me to make a split by this new record.
>>> Can you find better line to inject?
>
>> They are actually ordered by memory size. I want to keep it like this
>> in the driver and I prefer that the DT reflect it.
>
> So, I just disagree on the above. Rationale I described at one of the comment.
>
> At the end it's your call, but from my p.o.v. it makes life harder to
> read and catch the chips which are (un)supported.
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko

Yes, I prefer this version. Another reason to keep it like this is to
group chip variants together. E.g: atmel,24cs02, atmel,spd,
atmel,24mac402, atmel,24mac602 are all variants of atmel,24c02.

Thanks,
Bartosz