From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>, Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.xyz>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: dts: sunxi: Use new sun7i-a20-mmc compatible on sun7i and newer
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:54:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160822075454.GB7104@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b6ed836-27ff-c8c8-d886-d86c787605fc@arm.com>
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 02:11:09PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> On 30/07/16 15:25, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Use the new sun7i-a20-mmc compatible for the mmc controllers on sun7i
> > and newer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > Changes in v2:
> > -New patch in v2 of this patch-set
> > ---
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31.dtsi | 8 ++++----
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi | 8 ++++----
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a23-a33.dtsi | 6 +++---
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3.dtsi | 6 +++---
> > 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31.dtsi
> > index 1867af2..0d24f10 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31.dtsi
> > @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@
> > };
> >
> > mmc0: mmc@01c0f000 {
> > - compatible = "allwinner,sun5i-a13-mmc";
> > + compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-mmc";
>
> But that breaks systems with newer DTs on older kernels, which do not
> know about sun7i-a20-mmc.
That's not backward compatibility. That's the forward one, and that
has never been something we supported.
See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ABI.txt
Maxime
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-30 14:25 [PATCH v2 0/5] mmc: sunxi: sun4i / sun5i do not have sample clocks Hans de Goede
2016-07-30 14:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mmc: sunxi: Disable sample clks on remove Hans de Goede
2016-07-30 15:13 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-07-30 14:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mmc: sunxi: Introduce a sunxi_mmc_cfg struct Hans de Goede
2016-07-30 15:14 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-07-30 14:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mmc: sunxi: Factor out clock phase setting code into a helper function Hans de Goede
2016-07-30 15:14 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-07-30 15:18 ` Icenowy Zheng
2016-07-30 14:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mmc: sunxi: sun4i / sun5i do not have sample clocks Hans de Goede
2016-07-30 15:15 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-08-01 16:39 ` Rob Herring
2016-07-30 14:25 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: dts: sunxi: Use new sun7i-a20-mmc compatible on sun7i and newer Hans de Goede
2016-07-30 15:16 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-07-31 14:17 ` Hans de Goede
2016-08-01 13:11 ` Andre Przywara
2016-08-02 13:58 ` Hans de Goede
2016-08-22 7:54 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2016-08-22 9:02 ` Andre Przywara
2016-08-22 13:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] mmc: sunxi: sun4i / sun5i do not have sample clocks Ulf Hansson
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