From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 16:42:46 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] non urgent auxdata fix for v4.7 merge window In-Reply-To: <20160504175306.GU5995@atomide.com> References: <20160504175306.GU5995@atomide.com> Message-ID: <6011894.DIQc11mCV6@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 04 May 2016 10:53:07 Tony Lindgren wrote: > Device tree auxdata handling fix that allows a match based on the > compatible string if no exact match based on the IO address is found. > > This leaves out the need to patch auxdata for each driver when adding > new SoCs. And it also reprotedly fixes the issue of passing auxdata > to a child if the parent instantiates the child from DT as discussed > in the "[PATCH] of/platform: Allow secondary compatible match in > of_dev_lookup" mailing list thread. > > As a minimal use case, let's also convert omap pinctrl auxdatato > use a generic match. > > There is no need to get this in to the v4.6-rc cycle and it can wait > for v4.7 merge window. Note that these changes have now been sitting > in Linux next for about two weeks so far as I wanted to make sure no > new issues are popping up. > > Merged into next/fixes-non-critical, thanks! Arnd