[PATCH v12 3/6] flexcan: Fix up fsl-flexcan device tree binding.

Robin Holt holt at sgi.com
Tue Aug 16 01:25:40 EST 2011


On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:13:50AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Robin Holt <holt at sgi.com> wrote:
> > Grant,
> >
> > Earlier, you had asked for a more specific name for the compatible
> > property of the Freescale flexcan device.  I still have not gotten a
> > more specific answer.  Hopefully Marc can give you more details about
> > the flexcan implementations.
> 
> If there is no ip core version, then just stick with the
> fsl,<soc>-flexcan name and drop "fsl,flexcan".  Marketing may say
> flexcan is flexcan, but hardware engineers like to change things.
> Trying to be too generic in compatible values will just lead to
> problems in the future.

Thanks,
Robin


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