Hi Arend,
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Arend Van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15-5-2017 22:13, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
>> The example in the BCM43xx documentation uses "brcmf" as node name.
>> However, wireless devices should be named "wifi" instead. Fix this to
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Since when is that a rule. I never got the memo and the DTC did not ever
> complain to me about the naming. That being said I do not really care
> and I suppose it is for the sake of consistency only.
I'm not sure if it's actually a rule or (as you already noted) just
for consistency. back when I added devicetree support to ath9k Rob
pointed out that the node should be named "wifi" (instead of "ath9k"),
see [0]
>> make sure that .dts authors can simply use the documentation as
>> reference (or simply copy the node from the documentation and then
>> adjust only the board specific bits).
>
> Please feel free to add my...
>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
thank you!
@Rob: maybe you can ACK this as well if you're fine with this patch?
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/brcm,bcm43xx-fmac.txt | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/brcm,bcm43xx-fmac.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/brcm,bcm43xx-fmac.txt
>> index 5dbf169cd81c..590f622188de 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/brcm,bcm43xx-fmac.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/brcm,bcm43xx-fmac.txt
>> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ mmc3: mmc@01c12000 {
>> non-removable;
>> status = "okay";
>>
>> - brcmf: bcrmf@1 {
>> + brcmf: wifi@1 {
>> reg = <1>;
>> compatible = "brcm,bcm4329-fmac";
>> interrupt-parent = <&pio>;
>>
[0] http://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg14678.html
