On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Simon Horman
<horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Add fallback compatibility strings for R-Car Gen 1, 2 and 3.
>
> In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
> SoCs, f.e. Gen 1 and 2. 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: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/tmio_mmc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/tmio_mmc.txt
> @@ -47,7 +57,7 @@ Optional properties:
> Example: R8A7779 (R-Car H1) SDHI controller nodes
Ah, so "R8A7790 (R-Car H2)" was intended in the previous patch...
>
> sdhi0: sd@ee100000 {
> - compatible = "renesas,sdhi-r8a7790";
> + compatible = "renesas,sdhi-r8a7790", "renesas,rcar-gen2-sdhi";
> reg = <0 0xee100000 0 0x328>;
> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 165 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> clocks = <&mstp3_clks R8A7790_CLK_SDHI0>;
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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