From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: any place to mark various compatible strings as deprecated?
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:01:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090408160112.GA32364@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAE2DC43-2222-4353-BFA7-91A25ACD280F@kernel.crashing.org>
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:21:54AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:23:22AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> Do we have anywhere to list out compatible strings that are
>>> deprecated
>>> and warn if the kernel sees one?
>>
>> Wouldn't dtc be a better location for that? The kernel has to be
>> backwards
>> compatible anyway, I don't really see a reason to warn there.
>
> The reason is I want to eventually drop support in the kernel for some
> of the old compatibles.
If it's something that shipped then I don't see how you can ever
do that. Best thing you can do is do fixups like prom_init does and
translate them to the preferred compatible string of the week.
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-08 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-08 14:23 any place to mark various compatible strings as deprecated? Kumar Gala
2009-04-08 14:48 ` Olof Johansson
2009-04-08 15:21 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-08 16:01 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2009-04-08 15:47 ` David Gibson
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