On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * Thierry Reding | 2012-08-08 14:07:37 [+0200]: > > >With that in place, the driver code can match on "intel,hpet" to catch > >all implementations and use the more specific entries if quirks are > >required for the specific hardware. > > from http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/16/350: > > |"intel,ioapic" is probably too generic and can be dropped. Newer > |devices can claim compatibility with "intel,ioapic-ce4100" if they are > |indeed compatible so that device drivers don't need to be modified. > |It is better to anchor compatible values to real implementations that > |try to come up with 'generic' or wildcard strings. Ditto through the > |rest of the file.
Oh well. I've seen just the opposite used on ARM, where you start from a generic implementation and compatible value and use more specific compatible values for device-specific quirks. But okay, the hardware that I use seems to work fine anyway, so I'll just leave it as-is. Thierry
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