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dt-bindings: usb: usb-device: relax compatible pattern to a contains
authorQuentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:08:20 +0000 (16:08 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:21:45 +0000 (13:21 +0200)
commit495df45f38c8ba3d74c3180a0a13a0ecbfa717d1
tree61694f4834a66bdb8da7d427298e222183cedcac
parentf4239ace2dd8606f6824757f192965a95746da05
dt-bindings: usb: usb-device: relax compatible pattern to a contains

The dt-core typically allows multiple compatibles[1] but usb-device
currently forces a single compatible.

This is an issue when multiple devices with slightly different productID
all behave the same. This would require the driver to keep updating its
compatible matching table to include this new productID instead of doing
what is usually done: have two compatibles, the leftmost which matches
exactly the HW device definition, and the rightmost one as a fallback
which is assumed to be 100% compatible with the device at hand. If this
assumption turns out to be wrong, it is easy to work around this without
having to modify the device tree by handling the leftmost compatible in the driver.

[1] https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/blob/main/dtschema/schemas/dt-core.yaml#L21-L25

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250418-dt-binding-usb-device-compatibles-v2-1-b3029f14e800@cherry.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/usb-device.yaml