From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laxman Dewangan Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] extcon: palmas: Added a new compatible type *ti,palmas-usb-vid* Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:41:15 +0530 Message-ID: <5256A773.6060807@nvidia.com> References: <1381408647-24653-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1381408647-24653-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Cc: "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "pawel.moll@arm.com" , "mark.rutland@arm.com" , "swarren@wwwdotorg.org" , "cw00.choi@samsung.com" , "ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk" , "rob@landley.net" , "myungjoo.ham@samsung.com" , "gg@slimlogic.co.uk" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Stephen Warren List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 10 October 2013 06:07 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > The Palmas device contains only a USB VBUS-ID detector, so added a > compatible type *ti,palmas-usb-vid*. Didn't remove the existing compatible > types for backward compatibility. > I dont have much issue on this nomenclature but just second thought: The Palmas USB module is capable of detection VBUS, ID-GND, ID-RA, ID-RB, ID-RC and ID-FLOAT as per BC1.2. This sub-module only detect the cable, does nothing more than this. In this case, should we say "ti,palmas-usb-extcon"? Again extcon is linux specific terminology and this can be defer.