[RFC] More compatibles or more quirk properties
Mitch Bradley
wmb at firmworks.com
Fri Mar 6 18:32:38 EST 2009
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> I'm running into a dilemma choosing between two approaches of defining device tree binding. Let's say if we have several chips with a similar SoC block, but each of them have different quirks. If I define different compatibles for each of the chips, the driver will have a longer match table and thus bloat the device matching process. Or we can use a same compatible for all of them and define properties for each of the quirks. But it somewha
Properties to describe quirks precisely are definitely better. In fact,
that's fundamental principle - describe the situation, don't infer a
bunch of details from a name.
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