From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: dinh.linux@gmail.com, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>,
dinguyen@altera.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: Change dw-apb-timer-osc and dw-apb-timer-sp to just dw-apb-timer
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:57:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130812115703.GA27616@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130811214509.GA26757@quad.lixom.net>
> > index eb2327b..0a1020e 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/dw-apb.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/dw-apb.txt
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> > * Designware APB timer
> >
> > Required properties:
> > -- compatible: "snps,dw-apb-timer-sp" or "snps,dw-apb-timer-osc"
> > +- compatible: "snps,dw-apb-timer"
> > - reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped
> > region.
> > - interrupts: IRQ line for the timer.
>
> Here's a classic example of where we will eventually need to keep the ABI. You
> can add a comment that the preferred compatible value is the new one, but the
> old ones still need to be handled by the drivers, and shouldn't be removed.
>
> That is, of course, if people are happy with the current binding and want to
> keep it instead of revising it before declaring it locked in.
The first -sp / -osc separation was bad idea from the start. It would
be better if we could get rid of it.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-12 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-25 3:43 [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: Change dw-apb-timer-osc and dw-apb-timer-sp to just dw-apb-timer dinguyen
2013-07-29 18:25 ` Pavel Machek
2013-08-11 21:45 ` Olof Johansson
2013-08-12 11:57 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2013-06-18 0:08 [PATCH 0/2] Fix potential merge conflict for dw_apb_timer_of dinguyen-EIB2kfCEclfQT0dZR+AlfA
[not found] ` <1371514129-22801-1-git-send-email-dinguyen-EIB2kfCEclfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-18 0:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: Change dw-apb-timer-osc and dw-apb-timer-sp to just dw-apb-timer dinguyen-EIB2kfCEclfQT0dZR+AlfA
2013-06-18 13:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
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