From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kukjin Kim Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: Fix compatible value of pinctrl module on EXYNOS5440 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:40:51 -0800 Message-ID: <009901cdf52d$a0dcf0e0$e296d2a0$@samsung.com> References: <1357172423-8217-1-git-send-email-kgene.kim@samsung.com> <50F8B257.1090108@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: <50F8B257.1090108@gmail.com> Content-language: en-us Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: 'Rob Herring' , 'Linus Walleij' Cc: 'Grant Likely' , 'Stephen Warren' , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, 'Thomas Abraham' , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Rob Herring wrote: [...] > > As long as we're consistently inconsistent... What about 4210 and 4x12? > Hopefully, the reason was to avoid breaking them. > > This creates horrible incompatibilities between dts and kernel versions > by changing both. Any prior kernel will not work with this dts or later. > And more importantly this kernel version or newer will not work with > existing dtb's. We've been pretty lax on this as DT support has been > under heavy development, but things need to start tightening up. That > being said, if this isn't yet a concern for this platform, then I don't > really care. > I think, this can be applied for v3.8 and this two fixes should be harmless for DT compatibility of Samsung stuff. If there is no other concerns, let me pick up with Linus Walleij's ack. Thanks. - Kukjin