From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kukjin Kim Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: Fix compatible value of pinctrl module on EXYNOS5440 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:40:51 -0800 Message-ID: <009901cdf52d$a0dcf0e0$e296d2a0$@samsung.com> References: <1357172423-8217-1-git-send-email-kgene.kim@samsung.com> <50F8B257.1090108@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout1.samsung.com ([203.254.224.24]:26785 "EHLO mailout1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752880Ab3ARDlK (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:41:10 -0500 Received: from epcpsbgm1.samsung.com (epcpsbgm1 [203.254.230.26]) by mailout1.samsung.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-24.01(7.0.4.24.0) 64bit (built Nov 17 2011)) with ESMTP id <0MGS00C9PY879DE0@mailout1.samsung.com> for linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:41:09 +0900 (KST) Received: from visitor4lab ([105.128.18.157]) by mmp1.samsung.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-24.01 (7.0.4.24.0) 64bit (built Nov 17 2011)) with ESMTPA id <0MGS000GMY8I5M50@mmp1.samsung.com> for linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:41:08 +0900 (KST) In-reply-to: <50F8B257.1090108@gmail.com> Content-language: en-us Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org To: 'Rob Herring' , 'Linus Walleij' Cc: 'Grant Likely' , 'Stephen Warren' , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, 'Thomas Abraham' , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org Rob Herring wrote: [...] > > As long as we're consistently inconsistent... What about 4210 and 4x12? > Hopefully, the reason was to avoid breaking them. > > This creates horrible incompatibilities between dts and kernel versions > by changing both. Any prior kernel will not work with this dts or later. > And more importantly this kernel version or newer will not work with > existing dtb's. We've been pretty lax on this as DT support has been > under heavy development, but things need to start tightening up. That > being said, if this isn't yet a concern for this platform, then I don't > really care. > I think, this can be applied for v3.8 and this two fixes should be harmless for DT compatibility of Samsung stuff. If there is no other concerns, let me pick up with Linus Walleij's ack. Thanks. - Kukjin