Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: fsl: rename gw7905 to gw75xx

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-05-25T18:34:34Z

On 24/05/2024 20:40, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 04:04:50PM -0700, Tim Harvey wrote:
>> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 7:47 AM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 09:02:46AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> On 22/05/2024 23:50, Tim Harvey wrote:
>>>>> The GW7905 was renamed to GW7500 before production release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml | 4 ++--
>>>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml
>>>>> index 0027201e19f8..d8bc295079e3 100644
>>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml
>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml
>>>>> @@ -920,8 +920,8 @@ properties:
>>>>> - fsl,imx8mm-ddr4-evk # i.MX8MM DDR4 EVK Board
>>>>> - fsl,imx8mm-evk # i.MX8MM EVK Board
>>>>> - fsl,imx8mm-evkb # i.MX8MM EVKB Board
>>>>> + - gateworks,imx8mm-gw75xx-0x # i.MX8MM Gateworks Board
>>>>
>>>> That's not even equivalent. You 7500 != 75xx.
>>>>
>>>
>>>>> - gateworks,imx8mm-gw7904
>>>>> - - gateworks,imx8mm-gw7905-0x # i.MX8MM Gateworks Board
>>>>
>>>> Compatibles do not change. It's just a string. Fixed string.
>>>
>>> I think there's justification here for removing it, per the commit
>>> message, the rename happened before the device was available to
>>> customers.
>>> Additionally, I think we can give people that upstream things before they're
>>> publicly available a bit of slack, otherwise we're just discouraging
>>> people from upstreaming early.
>>
>> Hi Conor,
>>
>> Thanks for understanding - that's exactly what happened. I'm in the
>> habit of submitting patches early and often and it's no fun when
>> something like a silly product name gets changed and breaks all the
>> hard work.
>>
>> The board model number is stored in an EEPROM at manufacturing time
>> and that EEPROM model is used to build a dt name. So instead of GW7905
>> which would be a one-off custom design it was decided to change the
>> product to a GW75xx. The difference between GW7500 and GW75xx is
>> because we subload components on boards between GW7500/GW7501/GW7502
>> etc but the dt is the same.
>>
>> If there is resistance to a patch that renames it then I guess I'll
>> have to submit a patch that removes the obsolete board, then adds back
>> the same board under a different name. Shall I do that?
>
> I think this patch is fine - other than the inconsistency that Krzysztof
> pointed out between the "renamed to gw7500" and the "gw75xx" in the new
> compatible.

I am not a fan of renaming compatibles because of marketing change,
because compatible does not have to reflect the marketing name, but
there was already precedent from Qualcomm which I did not nak, so fine
here as well. Double wildcard 75xx is however a bit worrying.

Best regards,
Krzysztof