Re: [PATCH v4] extcon: palmas: Added a new compatible type *ti,palmas-usb-vid*

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On Saturday 24 August 2013 12:47 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/23/2013 05:28 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Friday 23 August 2013 02:20 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 08/22/2013 02:31 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>>> The Palmas device contains only a USB VBUS-ID detector, so added a
>>>> compatible type *ti,palmas-usb-vid*. Didn't remove the existing compatible
>>>> types for backward compatibility.
>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/extcon/extcon-palmas.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/extcon/extcon-palmas.txt
>>>
>>>>  PALMAS USB COMPARATOR
>>>>  Required Properties:
>>>> - - compatible : Should be "ti,palmas-usb" or "ti,twl6035-usb"
>>>> + - compatible : Should be "ti,palmas-usb-vid". "ti,twl6035-usb" and
>>>> +   "ti,palmas-usb" is deprecated and is kept for backward compatibility.
>>>
>>> So this defines one new value and deprecates the two old values.
>>
>> yeah.
>>>
>>> Why isn't a new "ti,twl6035-usb-vid" entry useful? Don't you still need
>>
>> yeah, it should be added too.
>>> SoC-specific compatible values so the driver can enable any SoC-specific
>>> bug-fixes/workarounds later if needed?
>>
>> hmm.. Palmas is external to SoC. So not sure if adding SoC specific compatible
>> values is such a good idea.
> 
> In this case, but SoC, I meant the Palmas chip rather than the
> application processor. Is twl6035 a name for Palmas or something else?

yeah, tw6035 is a name for palmas.

Thanks
Kishon
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