Re: [PATCH v3 03/16] mfd: mfd-core: match device tree node against reg property

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 May 2020, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 05:54:38PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > Am 2020-05-26 09:24, schrieb Lee Jones:
> 
> ...
> 
> > Like I said, in the long term I would like to have support for
> > different versions of the board management controller
> 
> > without having to change the device tree and have device tree bindings for the
> > subdevices at the same time.
> 
> But isn't device tree to describe *very specific platform* rather than *class
> of platforms*?

Yes.  Device Tree describes the hardware.

If the hardware changes, so must the Device Tree.

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