Re: [PATCH 03/17] dt-bindings: i2c: samsung,s3c2410-i2c: add specific compatibles for existing SoC

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Nov 09 2023 - 15:07:06 EST


On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 11:44 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Samsung Exynos SoC reuses several devices from older designs, thus
> historically we kept the old (block's) compatible only. This works fine
> and there is no bug here, however guidelines expressed in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/writing-bindings.rst state that:
> 1. Compatibles should be specific.
> 2. We should add new compatibles in case of bugs or features.
>
> Add compatibles specific to each SoC in front of all old-SoC-like
> compatibles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Makes perfect sense to me:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij