Hi,
Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 08:44:56PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
>> Now that we have access at probe time to the chip info described in the
>> device tree, check if the probed device matches the device node,
>> otherwise warn the user and fail.
>
> What good is this? So what if the device tree says a different
> model. We don't care, we don't use that information at all, we read it
> from the device itself.
So we can end up with a badly described device tree. It seems to be a
question of rigor vs. flexibility. I don't know much about the DT
philosophy and I don't really mind as long as we warn the user.
I'd like to have other opinions on this though before pushing v2.
Thanks,
Vivien
