From: s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] of: match the compatible in the order set by the dts file
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:51:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130709075124.GR516@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DBBFDA.70302@freescale.com>
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:46:34PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> ? 2013?07?09? 15:05, Sascha Hauer ??:
> >Why don't you set the matching order in the driver the way you want it
> >to be, i.e.:
> >
> > { .compatible = "fsl,imx6q-uart", ... },
> > { .compatible = "fsl,imx21-uart", ... },
> > { .compatible = "fsl,imx1-uart", ... },
> >
> yes. i can set it like this.
>
> but this method looks like a ugly workaround.
If a driver has different ways of supporting a single device, then
putting the preferred or most feature rich on top doesn't look very ugly
to me.
Sascha
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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Cc: grant.likely@linaro.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: match the compatible in the order set by the dts file
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:51:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130709075124.GR516@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DBBFDA.70302@freescale.com>
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:46:34PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> 于 2013年07月09日 15:05, Sascha Hauer 写道:
> >Why don't you set the matching order in the driver the way you want it
> >to be, i.e.:
> >
> > { .compatible = "fsl,imx6q-uart", ... },
> > { .compatible = "fsl,imx21-uart", ... },
> > { .compatible = "fsl,imx1-uart", ... },
> >
> yes. i can set it like this.
>
> but this method looks like a ugly workaround.
If a driver has different ways of supporting a single device, then
putting the preferred or most feature rich on top doesn't look very ugly
to me.
Sascha
--
Pengutronix e.K. | |
Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-09 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-05 8:43 [PATCH] of: match the compatible in the order set by the dts file Huang Shijie
2013-07-05 8:43 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-05 8:43 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-09 7:05 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-07-09 7:05 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-07-09 7:46 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-09 7:46 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-09 7:46 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-09 7:51 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2013-07-09 7:51 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-07-09 8:10 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-09 8:10 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-09 8:10 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-09 12:03 ` Rob Herring
2013-07-09 12:03 ` Rob Herring
2013-07-09 14:40 ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-09 14:40 ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-10 2:58 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-10 2:58 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-20 5:44 ` Grant Likely
2013-07-20 5:44 ` Grant Likely
2013-07-20 5:44 ` Grant Likely
2013-07-21 6:35 ` Thierry Reding
2013-07-21 6:35 ` Thierry Reding
2013-07-21 6:35 ` Thierry Reding
2013-07-21 20:45 ` Rob Herring
2013-07-21 20:45 ` Rob Herring
2013-07-21 20:45 ` Rob Herring
2013-07-21 23:36 ` Grant Likely
2013-07-21 23:36 ` Grant Likely
2013-07-09 14:27 ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-09 14:27 ` Stephen Warren
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