From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:35:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2 9/9] ARM: sunxi: Convert pinctrl nodes to generic bindings In-Reply-To: <58723369-50ad-1792-9be1-c277eb719044@arm.com> References: <58723369-50ad-1792-9be1-c277eb719044@arm.com> Message-ID: <20170105153556.pzec5jjuz7pmvsmn@lukather> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:16:23AM +0000, Andr? Przywara wrote: > So can I ask that we start taking this seriously and stop doing things > which prevent Allwinner boards from being supported properly? > Which would first involve dropping this very patch? The driver still supports the old binding. > Having done breakage in the past (with "allwinner,sun7i-a20-mmc", for > instance) is no excuse for doing it again. I'm not sure which breakage we introduced with a new compatible: the old compatible is working just like it used to, and the new one is working like we need it to. > And especially I want to avoid this habit creeping into the arm64 > world (thinking about the H5 here, which may be impacted by this > very patch, for instance). And again, if you looked at the entire serie, you would have seen that I took this into account. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: not available URL: