Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] media: soc_camera: rcar_vin: add R-Car Gen 2 and 3 fallback compatibility strings

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Simon Horman
<horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Yoshihiro Kaneko <ykaneko0929@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add fallback compatibility string for R-Car Gen 1 and 2.
>
> In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
> SoCs, e.g. Gen 2 and 3. But beyond that its not clear what the relationship
> between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that r8a7790 is older
> than r8a7791 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: Yoshihiro Kaneko <ykaneko0929@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

> --- a/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/rcar_vin.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/rcar_vin.c
> @@ -1845,6 +1845,8 @@ static const struct of_device_id rcar_vin_of_table[] = {
>         { .compatible = "renesas,vin-r8a7790", .data = (void *)RCAR_GEN2 },
>         { .compatible = "renesas,vin-r8a7779", .data = (void *)RCAR_H1 },
>         { .compatible = "renesas,vin-r8a7778", .data = (void *)RCAR_M1 },
> +       { .compatible = "renesas,rcar-gen3-vin", .data = (void *)RCAR_GEN3 },
> +       { .compatible = "renesas,rcar-gen2-vin", .data = (void *)RCAR_GEN2 },

Your patch is correct, but I would sort gen2 before gen3, though.

>         { },

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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