Hi,

-----"Andy Shevchenko" <[email protected]> schrieb: -----

>An: "Wolfgang Wallner" <[email protected]>
>Von: "Andy Shevchenko" <[email protected]>
>Datum: 21.04.2020 16:41
>Kopie: "Bin Meng" <[email protected]>, "Simon Glass"
><[email protected]>, "Andy Shevchenko"
><[email protected]>, "U-Boot Mailing List"
><[email protected]>, "Leif Lindholm" <[email protected]>
>Betreff: Re: Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] acpi: Add a binding for ACPI settings
>in the device tree
>
>On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:07 PM Wolfgang Wallner
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Betreff: Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] acpi: Add a binding for ACPI settings
>in
>> >the device tree
>> >
>> >Hi Wolfgang, Andy,
>> >
>> >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:37 AM Simon Glass <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Devices need to report various identifiers in the ACPI tables.
>> >Rather than
>> >> hard-coding these in drivers it is typically better to put them
>in
>> >the
>> >> device tree.
>> >>
>> >> Add a binding file to describe this.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
>> >> ---
>> >>
>> >
>> >Do you have any comments against this patch?
>>
>> I'm fine with the patch as it is.
>>
>> However, two remarks:
>>
>>  1) I proposed some rewording in [1].
>>     I'm fine with dropping it, I just point it out to make sure
>>     that it is deliberately dropped and no just overseen.
>>
>>  2) In [2] Andy stated that "acpi,compatible" can't work.
>>     @Andy: did I get this wrong? Is it still fine to add it in
>>     the binding?
>
>We can support it in the code, but user should themselves choose how
>to use it.
>This will be half-baked solution, though.
>
>So, I suggest for now to drop it completely.

Ok, thanks for clarifying.
That was the only aspect of the the patch I still felt I don't understand 
enough.
So whether "acpi,compatible" is dropped or not:

Reviewed-by: Wolfgang Wallner <[email protected]>


>> [1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2020-April/406818.html
>> [2] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2020-April/406943.html
>

regards, Wolfgang

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