Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] dt-bindings: hwinfo: group devices and add s5pv210-chipid

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Jul 05 2022 - 10:51:15 EST


On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 09:18:31AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
>
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 8:35 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As suggested by Rob [1], I organized a bit bindings for SoC devices having
> > similar purpose - chip identification.

What's the base? It didn't apply for me.

> >
> > These sometimes are put under nvmem directory, although in that case the
> > purpose is usually broader than just chipid.
>
> Thanks for your series!
>
> > dt-bindings: hwinfo: group Chip ID-like devices
> > dt-bindings: hwinfo: samsung,s5pv210-chipid: add S5PV210 ChipID
>
> So why not call it "chipid"?
> "hwinfo" sounds too generic to me; aren't all DT bindings hardware
> information?

I'm fine with hwinfo as the color of the shed. I don't think we should
encode where the information comes from.

Rob