On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Simon Horman
<horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Add fallback compatibility string for R-Car Gen 1 and Gen2.
>
> In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
> SoCs, e.g. Gen 1 and Gen 2. But beyond that its not clear what the
> relationship between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that
> r8a7779 is older than r8a7778 but that doesn't imply that the latter is a
> descendant of the former or vice versa.
>
> We can, however, by examining the documentation and behaviour of the
> hardware at run-time observe that the current driver implementation appears
> to be compatible with the IP blocks on SoCs within a given generation.
>
> For the above reasons and convenience when enabling new SoCs a
> per-generation fallback compatibility string scheme being adopted for
> drivers for Renesas SoCs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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