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Commit 87d9fa64 authored by Simon Horman's avatar Simon Horman Committed by David S. Miller
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dt-bindings: net: sh_eth: add R-Car Gen[12] fallback compatibility strings



Add fallback compatibility strings for R-Car Gen 1 and 2.

In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
SoCs, f.e. Gen 1 and 2. But beyond that its not clear what the relationship
between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that r8a7790 is older
than r8a7791 but that doesn't imply that the latter is a descendant of the
former or vice versa.

We can, however, by examining the documentation and behaviour of the
hardware at run-time observe that the current driver implementation appears
to be compatible with the IP blocks on SoCs within a given generation.

For the above reasons and convenience when enabling new SoCs a
per-generation fallback compatibility string scheme is being adopted for
drivers for Renesas SoCs.

Note that R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G1 have many compatible IP blocks.  The
approach that has been consistently taken for other IP blocks is to name
common code, compatibility strings and so on after R-Car Gen2.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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