[Patch V2 2/2] i2c: mv64xxx: Remove internal compatible string from Documentation

Andrew Lunn
2014-07-28T15:25:06Z

> > Add a call something like:
> >
> > /*
> > * Return the soc device attributes for a given soc_dev. If soc_dev is NULL,
> > * the first device on the soc bus is returned.
> > */
> > struct soc_device_attribute *soc_attribute_get(struct soc_device * soc_dev);
>
> Interesting idea, yes.

O.K, i will take a shot of implementing this sometime in the next few
weeks. Bit busy at the moment.

> There could also be a higher-level function that does a strcmp() in addition,
> so that a driver can do some variation of
>
> if (soc_name_is("Armada XP") && soc_revision_is("A0"))

We don't translate into 'Marketing names'. We just turn the register
values into a stringified number. So it would have to be something
like:

if (soc_name_is("7826") && soc_revision_is("1"))

Andrew