Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table for retrieving frequency

From	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table for retrieving frequency
Date	2017-05-22 19:30 +0200
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On 2017-05-22 19:20, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-05-22 19:12, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
>>>> Avoids reimplementation of DMI matching in intel_quark_i2c_setup.
>>>
>>> What's wrong with current approach? I suppose this will make sense
>>> when we will have an issue / impediment. Right now it looks like
>>> over-engineering.
>>>
>>> (Yes, I know what I said to you about this earlier, OTOH see above)
>>>
>>
>> It allows matching on additional DMI tags without additional code -
>> patch 2 depends on it.
> 
> And since there is no difference to the frequency the name is enough.
> So, I wouldn't go with this series as is. See above.

Nope: Just like for the stmmac, we need to include the asset tags to
avoid matching variations of the devices which may carry the same board
name. While I will try to avoid that this happens, we are better safe
than sorry here.

Jan

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[PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table for retrieving frequency Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> - 2017-05-22 13:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> - 2017-05-22 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 19:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 19:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> - 2017-05-22 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 19:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id  table for retrieving frequency Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2017-05-22 20:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 20:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> - 2017-05-22 20:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 21:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> - 2017-05-22 19:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> - 2017-05-22 19:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 19:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table  for retrieving frequency Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 19:20 +0200

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