From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com (Jason Gunthorpe) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 13:37:26 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] irqchip: add support for Marvell Orion SoCs In-Reply-To: <5182BFC6.3070709@gmail.com> References: <1367519104-19677-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <20130502185322.GA29333@obsidianresearch.com> <201305022111.41043.arnd@arndb.de> <5182BFC6.3070709@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20130502193726.GA29622@obsidianresearch.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > >The compatible string should change if the binding changes in an > >incomptible way, and we should try not to change it unless it's > >fundamentally flawed. > > Well, there is no _fundamental_ change in the binding syntax as it > is only reg, interrupts, and clocks. But there is a semantic change > in reg properties, as current orion irq controller wants the mask > registers (0x04,0x08) only while this also needs cause register > (0x00). Oh, I didn't notice that, good point - the original binding was flawed in that regard :| Jason