Hi Simon, On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Simon Horman <[email protected]> wrote: > In general Renesas hardware is not documented to the extent where the > relationship between IP blocks on different SoCs can be assumed although > they may appear to operate the same way. Furthermore the documentation > typically does not specify a version for individual IP blocks. For these > reasons a convention of using the SoC name in place of a version and > providing SoC-specific compat strings has been adopted. > > Although not universally liked this convention is used in the bindings for > most drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose of this patch is to > update the Renesas R-Car DMA Controller driver to follow this convention.
Thanks for tackling this! > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Magnus Damm <[email protected]> > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
