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On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 02:09:54PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 10:50 AM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > I'm not sure it's a particular concern, especially since you'll be
> > sending this stuff in the same series as a bindings update and an extra
> > patch in a series makes very little difference.

> Until the DT bindings are split off into their own project...
> Listing unneeded compatible values in drivers also increases binary size.
> For RSPI and MSIOF that would be +2.5 KiB each.  Times tens of drivers.

> Considering the RSPI driver itself is only 9 KiB, and some RZ/A1 systems
> are really memory-constrained, I think it's better to avoid that.

That is an issue, though I can't help wondering if space constrained
systems could use some sort of automatic compaction of the ID tables
during install.  We're also bloating their DTs by adding fallbacks of
course!

> > > Nowadays we have "make dtbs_check", so if a DTS doesn't conform to the
> > > binding, it will be flagged.

> > For things that are upstream.

> The DT bindings apply to out-of-tree DTS files, too ;-)
> If they're not compliant, all odds are off.

The point here is to improve robustness and make the interface less
fragile.

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