From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ezequiel Garcia Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] mtd: Add NAND ECC devicetree binding Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:03:24 -0300 Message-ID: <20140120170324.GA25652@localhost> References: <1389960820-18696-1-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> <20980858CB6D3A4BAE95CA194937D5E73EA66555@DBDE04.ent.ti.com> <20140117203347.GC3843@localhost> <20980858CB6D3A4BAE95CA194937D5E73EA67E79@DBDE04.ent.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20980858CB6D3A4BAE95CA194937D5E73EA67E79-yXqyApvAXouIQmiDNMet8wC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Gupta, Pekon" , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala Cc: David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , Thomas Petazzoni , Lior Amsalem , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Seif Mazareeb , "linux-mtd-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" , Gregory Clement List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 06:21:35AM +0000, Gupta, Pekon wrote: [..] > > > >Pekon, do you think this binding proposal is good enough to describe= OMAP NAND > >ECC mode? > > > >I'm not implying we should deprecate the recently added "ti-nand-ecc= -opt", > >but just want to know it's eventually possible. > > > Yes, this is good approach for long-term, and it can replace "ti-nand= -ecc-opt" > "ti-nand-ecc-opt" is not new DT binding, it just got some new values = added > However, you have to convince DT Maintainers to get this in, and then= deprecate > other vendor specific bindings. It would be difficult to maintain bac= kward > compatibility to these bindings, if we move to 'nand-ecc-strength'. >=20 Putting the DT maintainers on the To: field to get some feedback. > At some-point we need to get some concrete guidelines from DT Maintai= ners on > how long we should support deprecated bindings in our code, And what = is the > age of DT binding. I think David Woodhouse should throw more light, a= s he had > some discussions & ideas on about DT binding life, during a linux con= ference. >=20 That's a good question :-) --=20 Ezequiel Garc=C3=ADa, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" i= n the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html