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

Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-28T15:47:50Z

On Monday 28 July 2014 17:25:06 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > 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"))

Hmm, I think that is inconsistent with how the strings are used
on other platforms, where you want something that uniquely identifies
the device in user-readable strings.

I haven't checked how all the others are doing it though.

Arnd