On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 03:53:58PM +0530, Harish Bandi wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > > > > > > You mentioned in an earlier version of the series that there are > > > > > > multiple WCN3998 variants with different requirements for > > > > > > voltage/current. This seems to suggests that multiple compatible > > > > > > strings are needed to distinguish between them. > > > > > > > > > > > [Harish] -- for now we want to add WCN3998 support only, What i mean > > > > > to say > > > > > in my earlier > > > > > explanation that. WCN3990 is base variant and on top of that we have > > > > > variants like WCN3990, > > > > > WCN3998 and WCN3998-0,WCN3998-1 like that.. > > > > > So I think wcn399x would make sense for this series. > > > > > > > > If the variants have relevant differences between them (like different > > > > regulator requirements) I think you want unique names, rather than > > > > 'wcn399x' (I was referring to comments/documentation with this > > > > string). > > > > > > > > If there are variants wouldn't your first 'wcn3998' already be a > > > > 'wcn3998-n'? If 'wcn3998' without suffix is used I think it needs to > > > > be valid for all 'wcn3998-n' variants (it might be less > > > > power-efficient though than using the variant specific compatible > > > > string), otherwise things get confusing (a 'wcn3998-2' isn't a > > > > 'wcn3998'?) > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Harish] -- for now WCN3990 and WCN3998 only, also wcn3998-2 and > > > wcn3998 > > > are same. > > > So for now we are going to have only WCN3990 and WCN3998 for DT. > > > > Since you brought up the different power requirements initially: > > > > are your reasonably sure that future wcn3998-3, wcn3998-4, ... can > > operate with the generic wcn3998 power settings? > > [Harish] - yes with power settings of wcn3998, wcn3998-3 and wcn3998-4 ... > also will work. Thanks for the confirmation, in that case just using 'wcn3998' for now sounds good to me.
