On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Andrew F. Davis [off-list ref] wrote:

[Me]

quoted

Compatible ranges from the specific to the more generic
so compatible = "ti,74165", "pisosr"; is just fine. Something
will match if there is a suitable driver. The OS may choose to
provide something part-specific or something more generic.

And so we won't need to have "ti,74165" in the driver itself,
if we just have "pisosr", then dts files can use what ever they
like to correctly identify the part then fall back to pisosr.

compatible = "company,random_numbers_of_exact_part_actually_on_board",
"pisosr";

Exactly. Sorry for slow replies.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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