Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:13:07 -0500
From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Abhishek Sahu <absahu@codeaurora.org>
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        sricharan@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/25] dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: change compatible
 string for EBI2 NANDC
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 05:17:52PM +0530, Abhishek Sahu wrote:
> The current compatible string “qcom,ipq806x-nand" implies that
> the driver is specific to IPQ806x. This driver can be used by
> any chip which uses EBI2 NAND controller so changed the
> compatible string to “qcom,ebi2-nandc” to give it more generic
> name.
> 
> Since there is no user for this driver currently in so
> changing compatible string is safe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sahu <absahu@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom_nandc.txt | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom_nandc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom_nandc.txt
> index 70dd511..4511918 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom_nandc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom_nandc.txt
> @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
>  * Qualcomm NAND controller
>  
>  Required properties:
> -- compatible:		should be "qcom,ipq806x-nand"
> +- compatible:		should be "qcom,ebi2-nandc" - EBI2 NAND which uses ADM
> +			DMA like IPQ8064.

Compatible strings are supposed to be specific to the SoC. The old one 
wasn't quite and the new one moves in the wrong direction.

Rob