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Re: [PATCH v4 01/20] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: Document vendor to be used and deprecated ones

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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@dowhile0.org> wrote:
> The at24 driver allows to register I2C EEPROM chips using different vendor
> and devices, but the I2C subsystem does not take the vendor into account
> when matching using the I2C table since it only has device entries.
>
> But when matching using an OF table, both the vendor and device has to be
> taken into account, so the exact list of supported <vendor,device> tuples
> should be documented in the Device Tree binding document.
>
> But there is no need to have different manufacturers if the EEPROM chips
> from different manufacturers are really compatible, so matching using a
> single "atmel" vendor is enough for all chip types.
>
> Document in the Device Tree binding that the "atmel" manufacturer should
> be used, and also document the manufacturers that have been deprecated.
>
> Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Document the manufacturers that have been deprecated (Rob Herring).

I don't think that's what I said.

>
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
>
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt | 14 ++++----------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt
> index 5696eb508e95..121499252179 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt
> @@ -2,22 +2,16 @@ EEPROMs (I2C)
>
>  Required properties:
>
> -  - compatible : should be "<manufacturer>,<type>", like these:
> +  - compatible : should be "atmel,<type>", like these:
>
>         "atmel,24c00", "atmel,24c01", "atmel,24c02", "atmel,24c04",
>         "atmel,24c08", "atmel,24c16", "atmel,24c32", "atmel,24c64",
>         "atmel,24c128", "atmel,24c256", "atmel,24c512", "atmel,24c1024"
>
> -       "catalyst,24c32"
> +       The following manufacturers values have been deprecated:
> +       "at", "at24", "catalyst", "microchip", "nxp", "ramtron", "renesas", "st"

Only at and at24 should be deprecated.

>
> -       "microchip,24c128"
> -
> -       "ramtron,24c64"
> -
> -       "renesas,r1ex24002"
> -
> -        If there is no specific driver for <manufacturer>, a generic
> -        driver based on <type> is selected. Possible types are:
> +        Possible types are:
>          "24c00", "24c01", "24c02", "24c04", "24c08", "24c16", "24c32", "24c64",
>          "24c128", "24c256", "24c512", "24c1024", "spd"
>
> --
> 2.9.3
>

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[PATCH v4 01/20] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: Document vendor to be used and deprecated ones Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org> - 2017-05-22 16:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 01/20] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: Document vendor to be  used and deprecated ones Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-05-23 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 01/20] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: Document vendor to be  used and deprecated ones Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org> - 2017-05-23 16:00 +0200

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