Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:10:32 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CHROMIUM: arm64: dts: qcom: Add sc7180-gelarshie | From | Krzysztof Kozlowski <> |
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On 13/04/2022 23:48, Doug Anderson wrote: > I'm actually kinda curious: is there really a good reason for this? I > know I haven't been adding things to > `Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/qcom.yaml` for Qualcomm > Chromebooks. Ironically, it turns out that the script I typically use > to invoke checkpatch happens to have "--no-tree" as an argument and > that seems to disable this check. Doh! > > That being said, though, I do wonder a little bit about the value of > enumerating the top-level compatible like this in a yaml file. > Certainly the yaml schema validation in general can be quite useful, > but this top-level listing seems pure overhead. I guess it makes some > tools happy, but other than that it seems to provide very little > value...
If compatible is not part of ABI, it is allowed to change in whatever shape one wishes. In such case, how can anyone (e.g. user-space) identify the board? Model name? Also not part of ABI (not documented)...
Best regards, Krzysztof
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