Re: [PATCH 2/3] watchdog: xilinx: Setup the origin compatible string

[Michal Simek]

On 05/30/2013 04:00 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:26:03PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>> Watchdog 1.01.a is also compatible with 1.00.a.
>> Setup the origin version to compatible list.
>> If you want to use newer watchdog version, please
>> extend your compatible list.
>>
>> For example:
>> compatible = "xlnx,xps-timebase-wdt-1.02.a", "xlnx,xps-timebase-wdt-1.00.a";
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/watchdog/of_xilinx_wdt.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/of_xilinx_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/of_xilinx_wdt.c
>> index d4a35ab..79f358c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/watchdog/of_xilinx_wdt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/of_xilinx_wdt.c
>> @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static int xwdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
>>
>>  /* Match table for of_platform binding */
>>  static struct of_device_id xwdt_of_match[] = {
>> -	{ .compatible = "xlnx,xps-timebase-wdt-1.01.a", },
>> +	{ .compatible = "xlnx,xps-timebase-wdt-1.00.a", },
> 
> Is this really a good idea ? It means every existing device tree binding which
> specifies 1.01a will now fail. If the code is compatible to 1.00a, I think it
> would make more sense to add that to the driver as additional entry instead of
> deleting the existing entry for 1.01a.

The most of users/I believe all of them are using device-tree generator
which generate DTS directly from Xilinx design tools because it is almost
impossible to write DTS for any xilinx fpga plaform and
1.00.a is setup as backward compatible property.
But if you think that it is worth to keep there 1.01.a I have no problem
with that I will keep there 1.01.a and add 1.00.a.

Thanks,
Michal

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