[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "spi: efm32: use $vendor, $device scheme for compatible string" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu May 1 19:17:25 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    spi: efm32: use $vendor,$device scheme for compatible string

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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commit 12f6dd860cf8bf036c0bec38c00a53da71bcd43a upstream.

Wolfram Sang pointed out that "efm32,$device" is non-standard. So use the
common scheme and prefix device with "efm32-". The old compatible string
is left in place until arch/arm/boot/dts/efm32* is fixed.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/efm32-spi.txt | 4 ++--
 drivers/spi/spi-efm32.c                             | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/efm32-spi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/efm32-spi.txt
index a590ca5..f762e11 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/efm32-spi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/efm32-spi.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Required properties:
 - #address-cells: see spi-bus.txt
 - #size-cells: see spi-bus.txt
-- compatible: should be "efm32,spi"
+- compatible: should be "energymicro,efm32-spi"
 - reg: Offset and length of the register set for the controller
 - interrupts: pair specifying rx and tx irq
 - clocks: phandle to the spi clock
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Example:
 spi1: spi at 0x4000c400 { /* USART1 */
 	#address-cells = <1>;
 	#size-cells = <0>;
-	compatible = "efm32,spi";
+	compatible = "energymicro,efm32-spi";
 	reg = <0x4000c400 0x400>;
 	interrupts = <15 16>;
 	clocks = <&cmu 20>;
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-efm32.c b/drivers/spi/spi-efm32.c
index d4d3cc5..8933eb7 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-efm32.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-efm32.c
@@ -487,6 +487,9 @@ static int efm32_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)

 static const struct of_device_id efm32_spi_dt_ids[] = {
 	{
+		.compatible = "energymicro,efm32-spi",
+	}, {
+		/* doesn't follow the "vendor,device" scheme, don't use */
 		.compatible = "efm32,spi",
 	}, {
 		/* sentinel */
--
1.9.1





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