[PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: fsi: Add optional chip-id to CFAMs

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 12 12:07:34 AEST 2018


On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 11:48 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > We've generally standardized around "label" for things like slots,
> > ports, connectors, etc. that need to be physically identified.
> 
> Yes, label would be an option too, probably a better one that aliases.
> 
> > "slot-names" it seems hasn't gotten used for FDT. Since there aren't
> > DT's published for OF based systems nor any documentation, newbies
> > like me (that only have 8 years of DT experience) don't have any
> > insight into how things used to be done.
> 
> In a pretty much ad-hoc way :-) In this case, though, chip-id is a
> simple solution and works well (and I have the code already written and
> tested :-)

I want to try to get that stuff upstream. Do you still object to the
chip-id's after our discussion ? The labels aren't that great really...

Cheers,
Ben.


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