On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 09:04:14AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.
I don't feel strongly about this but I chose the order above to reflect the
sorting of the per-soc compat strings in this driver: numerically from
largest to smallest.
> > { },
