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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: RISC-V PLIC
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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 11:55:27 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:26:31PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Not really my problem that they didn't follow the process and upstream
> their binding first. But this alone is just a string identifier, so I
> don't really care that much. If things are really a mess, then the
> next implementations will have to have better compatible strings. More
> likely, I'll just see folks trying to add various properties to deal
> with all the differences.
> 
> You could always define a better compatible and leave 'riscv,plic0' as
> a fallback to avoid breaking things.

Is there any better way to define a compatible other than having
duplicate IRQCHIP_DECLARE() statements?