Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: qcom: Remove useless compatible strings from the match table

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Thu Dec 12 2019 - 18:23:54 EST


On Thu 12 Dec 13:21 PST 2019, Douglas Anderson wrote:

> The of match table in dwc3-qcom.c had an entry per Qualcomm SoC known
> to have dwc3. That's not needed. Here's why:
>
> 1. The bindings specify that the compatible string in the device tree
> should contain the SoC-specific compatible string followed by the
> string "qcom,dwc3".
>
> 2. All known Qualcomm SoC dts files (confirmed via git grep in
> mainline Linux) using dwc3 follow the rules and do, in fact,
> contain the SoC-specific compatible string followed by the string
> "qcom,dwc3".
>
> 3. The source code does nothing special with the per-SoC strings--they
> are only used to match the node.
>
> Let's remove the extra strings from the table. Doing so will avoid
> the need to land future useless patches [1] that do nothing more than
> add yet more strings to the table.
>
> NOTE: if later we _do_ find some SoC-specific quirk we need to handle
> in the code we can add back a subset of these strings. At the time we
> will probably also add some data in the match table to make it easier
> to generalize this hypothetical quirk across all the SoCs it affects.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1574940787-1004-2-git-send-email-sanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c
> index 261af9e38ddd..72e867e02a1c 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c
> @@ -751,9 +751,6 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops dwc3_qcom_dev_pm_ops = {
>
> static const struct of_device_id dwc3_qcom_of_match[] = {
> { .compatible = "qcom,dwc3" },
> - { .compatible = "qcom,msm8996-dwc3" },
> - { .compatible = "qcom,msm8998-dwc3" },
> - { .compatible = "qcom,sdm845-dwc3" },
> { }
> };
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, dwc3_qcom_of_match);
> --
> 2.24.1.735.g03f4e72817-goog
>