From: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org>
Cc: "Fabio.Estevam@freescale.com" <Fabio.Estevam@freescale.com>,
"Li.Xiubo@freescale.com" <Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>,
"alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
"broonie@kernel.org" <broonie@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: fsl_ssi: Remove unneeded 'i2s-slave' property
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:24:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140919172438.GA1736@Asurada> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541C26E2.4060605@tabi.org>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 07:51:46AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Nicolin Chen wrote:
> >>You can't just redefine a property, because that breaks backwards
> >>>compatibility with older device trees or older kernels.
>
> >Sorry, I'm not sure what's the problem here. It just drops i2s stuff
> >and leave AC97 part as we discussed. Why would old DTs be broken?
> >Is that possible for you to give me an example to understand the
> >point?
>
> If you have an older kernel with a newer device tree (that doesn't have
> "i2s-mode"), the driver will fail to load because "i2s-mode" is missing.
I thought only the backward compatibility for DT is demanded.....
But I still don't get why people would use new DT without updating
kernel. It's pretty fair to use old DT with newer kernel because
they want bug-fix patches.
Thank you
Nicolin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-19 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-09-18 18:46 ` [PATCH] ASoC: fsl_ssi: Remove unneeded 'i2s-slave' property Fabio.Estevam
2014-09-18 19:43 ` Nicolin Chen
2014-09-19 0:29 ` Timur Tabi
2014-09-19 4:17 ` Nicolin Chen
2014-09-19 12:51 ` Timur Tabi
2014-09-19 17:24 ` Nicolin Chen [this message]
2014-09-19 23:49 ` Timur Tabi
2014-09-20 18:07 ` Nicolin Chen
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