From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vinod Koul Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:51:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: rcar-dmac: Document SoC specific bindings Message-Id: <20151116035533.GC25173@localhost> List-Id: References: <1447293239-8554-1-git-send-email-horms+renesas@verge.net.au> In-Reply-To: <1447293239-8554-1-git-send-email-horms+renesas@verge.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Simon Horman Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Magnus Damm , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Laurent Pinchart On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:53:59AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > In general Renesas hardware is not documented to the extent where the > relationship between IP blocks on different SoCs can be assumed although > they may appear to operate the same way. Furthermore the documentation > typically does not specify a version for individual IP blocks. For these > reasons a convention of using the SoC name in place of a version and > providing SoC-specific compat strings has been adopted. > > Although not universally liked this convention is used in the bindings for > most drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose of this patch is to > update the Renesas R-Car DMA Controller driver to follow this convention. Applied, thanks -- ~Vinod