From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: All device tree bindings need maintainer ack or just the 'interesting' ones. Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:07:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20130917120730.GW16984@lee--X1> References: <52345182.1080609@kernel.org> <52372F2B.3030504@gmail.com> <20130917081003.GU16984@lee--X1> <20130917112433.GB26737@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130917112433.GB26737-NuALmloUBlrZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mark Rutland Cc: Rob Herring , Jonathan Cameron , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Pawel Moll , Stephen Warren , Ian Campbell List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:10:03AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-iio&m=3D137881790217809&w=3D2 > > >=20 > > > Looks reasonable. My only comment is '-' is preferred over '_'. > >=20 > > Ah, in the node name you mean. Yes, I can change that. > >=20 > > The compatible string has to stay the same however, as it has to ma= tch > > the device name which can't be changed due to possible userspace > > breakage. >=20 > I'm not sure I follow why the compatible string must be identical to = the > name appearing to userspace. It doesn't. It has to be identical to the device name, which I'm guessing is used when populating sysfs. --=20 Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org =E2=94=82 Open source software for ARM SoCs =46ollow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" i= n the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html