On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 21:24 +0100, Florian Vaussard wrote:
>> On 02/27/2014 09:10 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 20:56 +0100, Florian Vaussard wrote:
>> >> With a compatible string like
>> >> compatible = "foo";
>> >> checkpatch will currently try to find "foo" in vendor-prefixes.txt,
>> >> which is wrong since the vendor prefix is empty in this specific case.
> []
>> > Some vendor names have dashes.
>> > I don't know if underscores are allowed.
>> >
>> > $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -oh "compatible\s*=\s*\"[^,]+,\w" * | \
>> > sed -r -e 's/\s//g' -e 's/,.$//' | sort | uniq -c | grep "[_-]"
>> > 1 compatible="active-semi
>> > 8 compatible="asahi-kasei
> []
>> In ePAPR v1.1, I could not find any strict requirement. It
>> is just saying:
>>
>> The recommended format is "manufacturer,model", where manufacturer is a
>> string describing the name of the manufacturer (such as a stock ticker
>> symbol), and model specifies the model number.
>
> Should there also be a check in .c and .h files for
> .compatible = "somestring"
Ideally, yes. I didn't do that because I figured there would be too
many variations in formatting compared to dts files.
> and
> OF_DEV_AUXDATA("somestring",,,,)
Probably not. OF_DEV_AUXDATA is hopefully temporary. There are 156
instances now and it looks like they've been going down since 3.8.
Rob
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