On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:19:57PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: Please use subject lines matching the style for the subsytsem so people can spot that the patch is in some way relevant. > The controller-data subnode has no compatible. This can lead to other > drivers getting confused by it. Add a compatible to make devicetreee > unambiguous. I can't tell from this commit message what the issue you're trying to fix is, sorry. Nodes without compatible strings are entirely normal and don't need compatible strings. It sounds like a bug in whatever other driver is becoming confused. > + if (!of_get_property(data_np, "compatible", NULL) || > + strcmp(of_get_property(data_np, "compatible", NULL), > + "samsung,s3c-controller-data")) > + dev_err(&spi->dev, "child node 'controller-data' does not have correct compatible\n"); This will break all existing users which is not acceptable for mainline, we need to preserve compatibility with existing device trees.
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