From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752385AbbCDVW4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:22:56 -0500 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:57564 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752105AbbCDVWy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:22:54 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id From: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: <2483237.3YTlNsnOp7@wuerfel> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 15:22:49 -0600 Cc: linux-arm-msm , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arm@kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, heiko@sntech.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <1425503602-24916-1-git-send-email-galak@codeaurora.org> <2483237.3YTlNsnOp7@wuerfel> To: Arnd Bergmann X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 15:13:20 Kumar Gala wrote: >> The top level qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id are utilized by bootloaders >> on Qualcomm MSM platforms to determine which device tree should be >> utilized and passed to the kernel. >> >> Cc: >> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala > > This seems to duplicate the root-node compatible strings for no particular > reason, with a less flexible format. I think it would be better to fix > the boot loader. While I wish that was an option, this is a solution that has been shipping on MSM platforms and phones for some time. - k -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project