Re: [PATCHv1 3/6] HSI: hsi-char: add Device Tree support

[Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:49:58PM +0000, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Add of_match_table to hsi_char driver, so that it can
> be referenced from Device Tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org>
> ---
>  drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c b/drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c
> index e61e5f9..7f64bed 100644
> --- a/drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c
> +++ b/drivers/hsi/clients/hsi_char.c
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
>  #include <linux/stat.h>
>  #include <linux/hsi/hsi.h>
>  #include <linux/hsi/hsi_char.h>
> +#include <linux/of_device.h>
>  
>  #define HSC_DEVS		16 /* Num of channels */
>  #define HSC_MSGS		4
> @@ -758,12 +759,22 @@ static int hsc_remove(struct device *dev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> +static const struct of_device_id hsi_char_of_match[] = {
> +	{ .compatible = "ssi-char", },

This string is undocumented.

> +	{ .compatible = "hsi-char", },

I'm not sure either string makes sense though; this feels like a binding
for the sake of the driver rather than describing the device and
allowing the driver to pick it up if it makes sense to do so.

What exactly is a "ssi-char" device or a "hsi-char" device?

Cheers,
Mark.