Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:51:24 +0200 | From | Sascha Hauer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] of: match the compatible in the order set by the dts file |
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:46:34PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote: > 于 2013年07月09日 15:05, Sascha Hauer 写道: > >Why don't you set the matching order in the driver the way you want it > >to be, i.e.: > > > > { .compatible = "fsl,imx6q-uart", ... }, > > { .compatible = "fsl,imx21-uart", ... }, > > { .compatible = "fsl,imx1-uart", ... }, > > > yes. i can set it like this. > > but this method looks like a ugly workaround.
If a driver has different ways of supporting a single device, then putting the preferred or most feature rich on top doesn't look very ugly to me.
Sascha
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