From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andy Gross <agross@codeaurora.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove the need for qcom,{msm-id,board-id,pmic-id}
References: <1445894712-14350-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:04:07 -0800
In-Reply-To: <1445894712-14350-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> (Stephen
	Boyd's message of "Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:25:09 -0700")
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Hi Stephen,

Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> writes:

> This patchset documents a compatible string format that encodes
> all the information that was being encoded in qcom specific DT
> properties in downstream msm kernels. The goal being to come
> up with a format that will allow us to express the information
> we want to express without requiring the use of vendor specific
> properties. An updated dtbTool will be released after these new
> bindings are accepted so that users can work with non-updateable
> bootloaders.
>
> This is an attempt to resolve a discussion around March of this year[1]
> where the arm-soc maintainers suggested we express this information
> through the board's compatible string.

Thanks for working on this.  This indeed looks like the right way to
handle this, including updating dtbTool.  Very nice.

I guess the DT maintainers should have a crack at the bindings, but
otherwise it looks good.

Kevin
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