From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 11:21:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: uniphier: drop code for old DT binding In-Reply-To: <1464682628-12163-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> References: <1464682628-12163-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Message-ID: <4992506.m4GEHIOqdc@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 5:17:08 PM CEST Masahiro Yamada wrote: > Commit 307d40c56b0c ("ARM: uniphier: rework SMP code to support new > System Bus binding") added a new DT binding for SMP code, but still > kept old code for the backward compatibility. > > Linux 4.6 was out with both bindings supported, so it should not > hurt to drop the old code now. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada > That explanation is in general not sufficient. Are you sure that nobody is shipping a machine with their own dts file that is not merged upstream, and that there are no bootloaders that have a hardcoded dtb file that we need to support indefinitely? Arnd