From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:51:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] of: match the compatible in the order set by the dts file
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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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