From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] drivers: firmware: psci: unify enable-method binding on ARM {64, 32}-bit systems
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:02:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5255940.mPUzGZ0TLa@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160426110147.GC20836@leverpostej>
On Tuesday 26 April 2016 12:01:48 Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:49:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 April 2016 11:42:58 Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > >
> > > Gentle ping to include this in next round of arm-soc fixes. It would be
> > > good to get this fixed before v4.6 as we don't want to have user of the
> > > binding which we want to remove in the release.
> > >
> >
> > Applied to the fixes branch. I have to admit that I don't understand
> > how the compatible string is really used here, so I have to trust that
> > this cannot break any existing machine.
>
> The buggy code was merged for v4.6-rc1, so this hasn't been in a
> release, and should not break an existing user.
>
> No compatible string is used here, which is precisely the confusion this
> addresses. The PSCI enable-method != the compatible string for a PSCI
> node, but the two got confused in a documentation patch, and then that
> confusion spread to code.
>
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
ARnd
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-22 15:18 [PATCH v2] drivers: firmware: psci: unify enable-method binding on ARM {64, 32}-bit systems Sudeep Holla
2016-04-26 10:42 ` [PATCH v2] drivers: firmware: psci: unify enable-method binding on ARM {64,32}-bit systems Sudeep Holla
2016-04-26 10:49 ` [PATCH v2] drivers: firmware: psci: unify enable-method binding on ARM {64, 32}-bit systems Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-26 11:01 ` [PATCH v2] drivers: firmware: psci: unify enable-method binding on ARM {64,32}-bit systems Mark Rutland
2016-04-26 11:02 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-04-26 11:02 ` Sudeep Holla
2016-04-26 11:02 ` [PATCH v2] drivers: firmware: psci: unify enable-method binding on ARM {64, 32}-bit systems Jisheng Zhang
2016-04-26 11:22 ` Sudeep Holla
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