[PATCH v4 1/2] soc: samsung: add exynos chipid driver support

[arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)]

> Exynos SoCs have Chipid, for identification of product IDs
> and SoC revisions. This patch intendes to provide initialization
> code for all these functionalites, at the same time it provides some
> sysfs entries for accessing these information to userspace.
> 
> This driver usese existing binding for exnos-chipid.

Nice!

On Wednesday 03 December 2014 13:47:37 Pankaj Dubey wrote:

> +       soc_dev_attr->soc_id = exynos_product_id_to_name(soc_product_id);
> +
> +       soc_dev = soc_device_register(soc_dev_attr);
> +       if (IS_ERR(soc_dev))
> +               goto free_rev;
> +
> +       device_create_file(soc_device_to_device(soc_dev), &exynos_product_attr);
> +       device_create_file(soc_device_to_device(soc_dev),
> +                               &exynos_main_rev_attr);
> +       device_create_file(soc_device_to_device(soc_dev), &exynos_sub_rev_attr);
> +

I don't like the idea of having three extra nonstandard properties here,
especially when you are not using the machine field for anything useful.

Also, all three of these just come from the same register, why expose
them all as the machine and revision standard properties.

	Arnd