From: bcousson@baylibre.com (Benoit Cousson)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:22:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/5] net: ethernet: cpsw: introduce ti,am3352-cpsw
 compatible string
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Hi Santosh,

[...]

>> +static const struct of_device_id cpsw_of_mtable[] = {
>> +	{
>> +		.compatible	= "ti,am3352-cpsw",
> I didn't notice this earlier, but can't you use the IP version
> as a compatible instead of using a SOC name. Whats really SOC specific
> on this IP ? Sorry i have missed any earlier discussion on this but
> this approach doesn't seem good. Its like adding SOC checks in the
> driver subsystem.

Hehe, welcome to the club!
I keep arguing about that as well :-)

I think we should create a Facebook group: 
"against-the-soc-version-in-the-compatible-string".

Regards,
Benoit