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From: alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com (Alexandre Belloni)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:09:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] power: reset: at91: add sama5d3 reset function
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Hi,

On 10/07/2015 at 15:56:52 +0800, Josh Wu wrote :
> I would agree with Maxime. Currently all latest chip reset function is
> compatible with the atmel,sama5d3-rstc.
> So check compatible string is enough for now.
> But of cause if we have other incompatible reset in future with new chip,
> the structure like you said is needed.

We managed to avoid using of_machine_is_compatible() in all the at91
drivers. I'd like to keep it that way. It was painful enough to remove
all those cpu_is_at91xxx calls.
Also, using it is trying to match strings and will result in longer boot
times.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com