Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: qcom: readme: document preferred compatible naming

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 09:46:59AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Compatibles can come in two formats.  Either "vendor,ip-soc" or
> "vendor,soc-ip".  Qualcomm bindings were mixing both of usages, so add a
> readme file documenting preferred policy.

Is this all I needed to do to stop this from QCom? </sarcasm>

This convention is not QCom specific, though the error mostly is. 
Perhaps this should be documented generically.

> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
> Cc: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
> Cc: Robert Foss <robert.foss@linaro.org>
> Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma@linaro.org>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/README.rst      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/README.rst
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/README.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/README.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..322b329ac7c1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/README.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
> +
> +Qualcomm SoC compatibles naming convention
> +==========================================
> +1. When adding new compatibles in new bindings, use the format:
> +   ::
> +
> +     qcom,SoC-IP
> +
> +   For example:
> +   ::
> +
> +     qcom,sdm845-llcc-bwmon

Assuming the list of possible SoCs was maintained, you could make this a 
schema. Though there might be false positives.

> +
> +2. When adding new compatibles to existing bindings, use the format
> +   in the existing binding, even if it contradicts the above.
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
>