From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maxime Ripard Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] clocksource: sunxi: Add new compatibles Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:45:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20140204084521.GH25625@lukather> References: <1391348280-9484-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> <52EFC573.2050302@linaro.org> <20140203194505.GF25625@lukather> <52EFF96A.1020302@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QDd5rp1wjxlDmy9q" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52EFF96A.1020302-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Daniel Lezcano Cc: tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org --QDd5rp1wjxlDmy9q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:17:46PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 02/03/2014 08:45 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > >Hi Daniel, > > > >(Adding DT mailing-list in CC) > > > >On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 05:36:03PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > >>On 02/02/2014 02:37 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > >>>The Allwinner A10 compatibles were following a slightly different comp= atible > >>>patterns than the rest of the SoCs for historical reasons. Add compati= bles > >>>matching the other pattern to the timer driver for consistency, and ke= ep the > >>>older one for backward compatibility. > >> > >>Hi Maxime, > >> > >>is it really needed to keep the old pattern ? > > > >We agreed during the ARM Kernel Summit to consider the DT as a stable > >ABI. > > > >While I'd be ok with removing the older ones, that also means that we > >would break the boot of newer kernels with older DT, so yes, we > >actually need to keep the old compatibles. >=20 > Thanks for the clarification. >=20 > So these old compatibles will stay there 'ad vitam aeternam', right ? Except for what Rob told, yep, that was my feeling, but Gregory and I seem to have a different interpretation of this rule :) Maxime --=20 Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com --QDd5rp1wjxlDmy9q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJS8KihAAoJEBx+YmzsjxAgTckQAIhIFkrzsjEw7ozksj4pMYmk EwwfKhqGZ+mes9QCrVonbvDguetTNZBz9kvs4fZKTlv07Kv0HqLbLIN2nh5LYQRQ uZ+IrVkNBnuc5nx/Dop4f6IiIQjicdZkCSOUqTlZuwx/m0XvWCQq0l9g8Z30HxNa UYijKnJmlbhNIxl0py9PfaPNi7kZ2Znz9nDlvLdT+uTEu0SPPMu+Ds9Zy+/clXLv iKJAFdXoKEqV/pFbCaHJ9LjqN2IiWbp9P96AXTRCRkKMGqmtXcSsxq2KDQZKXKL/ kPQ/sVBoQIZd1M3I5oazsFFkR4IJmaCsTMA+9yw7YTdYbqZf0cTdUjiixdWFzgbZ eRbTSvUuWfPmNh6IOq+MhKWYcZvIQPA4PrLn9FTguQs/8dt352V32uKFuZ+A6TBm Yyf/W4EmW1mQw3jEkae8Sx0kWqF2X65JaxTyR4U8eSTcyojXRBZGHlqgAqm0oxPY nbIuPEeXvs36PtEtq1RLaGeffbTEivW8NTE6oDOYOav2HzUu1OhYJXua2F3Dy1Rr RLQv6woI021/XvoPGAB2f+70Fy9kbVlQil/E5Xm2RucEivA1KV1ZhIoIL5Gf2/Ap Vz8bhsV3i+Wt8zUUotHjK1okQH3a+SKA/OLq3k1OQOlBd6/AiBHglrBwF5fGN2ka xEvINXUKr0skKki4QqUa =PnWA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QDd5rp1wjxlDmy9q-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html