Hi all, Some Renesas SoCs may exist in different revisions, providing slightly different functionalities (e.g. R-Car H3 ES1.x and ES2.0). This needs to be catered for by drivers and/or platform code. The recently proposed soc_device_match() API seems like a good fit to handle this. This patch series implements the core infrastructure to provide SoC and revision information through the SoC bus for Renesas ARM SoCs. It consists of 4 patches: - Patch 1 avoids a crash when SoC revision information is needed and provided early, - Patch 2 (from Arnd) introduces the soc_device_match() API. I don't know if, when, and through which channel this patch is planned to go upstream, - Patch 3 fixes a bug in soc_device_match(), causing a crash when trying to match on an SoC attribute that is not provided (seen on EMEV2, RZ/A, and R-Car M1A, which lack revision information), - Patch 4 identifies Renesas SoCs and registers them with the SoC bus. Tested on (family, machine, soc_id, optional revision): Emma Mobile EV2, EMEV2 KZM9D Board, emev2 RZ/A, Genmai, r7s72100 R-Mobile, APE6EVM, r8a73a4, ES1.0 R-Mobile, armadillo 800 eva, r8a7740, ES2.0 R-Car Gen1, bockw, r8a7778 R-Car Gen1, marzen, r8a7779, ES1.0 R-Car Gen2, Lager, r8a7790, ES1.0 R-Car Gen2, Koelsch, r8a7791, ES1.0 R-Car Gen2, Gose, r8a7793, ES1.0 R-Car Gen2, Alt, r8a7794, ES1.0 R-Car Gen3, Renesas Salvator-X board based on r8a7795, r8a7795, ES1.0 R-Car Gen3, Renesas Salvator-X board based on r8a7796, r8a7796, ES1.0 SH-Mobile, KZM-A9-GT, sh73a0, ES2.0 For your convenience, this series is also available in the topic/renesas-soc-id-v1 branch of my renesas-drivers git repository at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git Thanks for your comments! Arnd Bergmann (1): base: soc: Introduce soc_device_match() interface Geert Uytterhoeven (3): base: soc: Early register bus when needed base: soc: Check for NULL SoC device attributes [RFC] soc: renesas: Identify SoC and register with the SoC bus arch/arm/mach-shmobile/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 + drivers/base/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/base/soc.c | 79 +++++++++++ drivers/soc/renesas/Makefile | 2 + drivers/soc/renesas/renesas-soc.c | 266 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/sys_soc.h | 3 + 7 files changed, 353 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/soc/renesas/renesas-soc.c -- 1.9.1 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds