On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 12:27 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Pawel Moll wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 08:18 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > A short addendum. At least with Renesas SoCs I see the situation in the > > > following way: new SoC versions appear relatively frequently. > > > > What frequency are we talking about? Once per year? Once per month? I'm > > not trying to be picky, it really makes a difference... > > Definitely not every month - not until now in the mainline at least. I > currently count 9 SoCs, added since 2010, which makes about 2-3 SoCs per > year.
So this is actually a slower rate that I've faced in my previous life working for a silicon vendor ;-) And my experience is that the IPs were different between the SoCs indeed but: 1. Not all of them at the same time (so no extra compatible values for others). 2. When there was a change it required change in a driver as well (so adding a compatible value is not an issue). 3. The changes were *completely* unpredictable (so even comprehensive list of DT properties wouldn't help) To summarize, count this as another vote for using compatible rather then "universal & future-proof" set of properties. Unless there is a very good rationale for it (I'm sure such cases exist) Thanks! Pawel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
