Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] ti: k3-am62{a,p}x-sk: add opp frequencies

[Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>]

On 13:17-20240925, Dhruva Gole wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2024 at 07:15:44 -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > On 15:20-20240924, Dhruva Gole wrote:
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > I am sorry that this breaks compatibility with older AM625 devicetree.
> > > However, the old devicetree was marking the entire wkup_conf as "syscon",
> > > "simple-mfd" which was wrong and needed to be fixed.
> > > 
> > > This series finally tries to bring order to DT and the driver.
> > > 
> > > However, if there is still any way to maintain the backward
> > > compatibility, then I am open to suggestions. Please try
> > > and understand here that the ask for backward compatibility here
> > > is to ask the driver to support a case where the register offset itself
> > > was to be picked from a different node. I am not sure if there's any
> > > cleaner way to do this.
> > 
> > 
> > Have you tried to handle this with quirks? I am not in favor of breaking
> > backward compatibility.
> 
> I was thinking of something on those lines, but quirks makes sense for
> the case that there's a quirky behaviour in the SoC itself. Here it
> seems to me that we are adding a quirk to handle quirk in some old devicetree.
> 
> There's no way to detect the devicetree version or somehow distinguish
> within the driver if it's an old or a new DT. One way I could think of
> is on these lines:

I suggest going and experimenting a bit. Sorry, changes that break
backward compatibility: NAK!

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Nishanth Menon
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