Re: [PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: i2c: renesas,rzv2m: Fix SoC specific string

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Nov 04 2022 - 04:55:52 EST


Hi Krzysztof,

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 2:48 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/11/2022 19:06, Fabrizio Castro wrote:
> > s/renesas,i2c-r9a09g011/renesas,r9a09g011-i2c/g for consistency.
> >
> > renesas,i2c-r9a09g011 is not actually used by the driver, therefore
> > changing this doesn't cause any harm.
>
> And what about other users of DTS? One chosen driver implementation
> might not be enough...
>
> >
> > Fixes: ba7a4d15e2c4 ("dt-bindings: i2c: Document RZ/V2M I2C controller")
>
> You need to explain the bug - where is the issue, how it affects users.
> Otherwise it is not a bug and there is nothing to fix.

Yep.

The preferred form is "<vendor>,<family>-<module>", blah blah ...

> > Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro.jz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/renesas,rzv2m.yaml | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/renesas,rzv2m.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/renesas,rzv2m.yaml
> > index c46378efc123..92e899905ef8 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/renesas,rzv2m.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/renesas,rzv2m.yaml
> > @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ properties:
> > compatible:
> > items:
> > - enum:
> > - - renesas,i2c-r9a09g011 # RZ/V2M
> > + - renesas,r9a09g011-i2c # RZ/V2M
>
> No.
>
> Deprecate instead old compatible. There are already users of it, at
> least in kernel. Not sure about other OS/bootloaders/firmwares.

As stated in the cover letter:

Since it's early days for r9a09g011.dtsi, and compatible
renesas,i2c-r9a09g011 isn't being actively used at the moment,
I think it's safe to change to make compatible strings less
confusing.

The bindings entered in v6.0.
The first user in the kernel is not yet in a released kernel, it will
be in v6.1. So it can still be fixed in v6.1...
Even if we don't fix it before v6.2, I don't think there is much harm in
making this change.

With the patch description improved:
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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