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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>,
	Binbin Zhou <zhoubb.aaron@gmail.com>,
	Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
	loongson-kernel@lists.loongnix.cn, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, diasyzhang@tencent.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson,liointc: Fix warnings about liointc-2.0
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 09:54:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pm2ye2si.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7898abf-34ca-d0b4-fd0c-935100dcd3f2@flygoat.com>

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:25:48 +0100,
Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 在 2023/8/30 21:44, Marc Zyngier 写道:
> [...]
> >> What's the best way, in your opinion, to overhaul this property? As we don't
> >> really care backward compatibility of DTBs on those systems we can
> >> just redesign it.
> > You may not care about backward compatibility, but I do. We don't
> > break existing systems, full stop.
> Ah it won't break any existing system. Sorry for not giving enough insight
> into the platform in previous reply. As for Loongson64 all DTBs are built
> into kernel binary. So as long as binding are changed together with all DTS
> in tree we won't break any system.

This is factually wrong. QEMU produces a DT for Loongarch at runtime.
So no, you're not allowed to just drop bindings on the floor. They
stay forever.

> > As for the offending property, it has no place here either. DT is not
> > the place where you put "performance knobs".
> Hmm, I can see various bindings with vendor prefix exposing device
> configurations. If we seen this interrupt routing as a device configuration
> I don't think it's against devicetree design philosophy.

Just because we have tons of crap in the device trees doesn't give you
a license to be just as bad.

	M.

-- 
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-04  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-21  6:13 [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson,liointc: Fix warnings about liointc-2.0 Binbin Zhou
2023-08-22  4:44 ` Huacai Chen
2023-08-22  5:44 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-08-22  8:13   ` Binbin Zhou
2023-08-22  8:30     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-08-24 11:32       ` Binbin Zhou
2023-08-25 12:56         ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-08-30  3:59           ` Jiaxun Yang
2023-08-30 13:44             ` Marc Zyngier
2023-08-30 15:25               ` Jiaxun Yang
2023-09-04  8:54                 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2023-10-16 11:26                   ` Binbin Zhou
2023-10-17 15:05                     ` Jonas Gorski
2023-10-18  6:57                       ` Binbin Zhou
2023-10-18  9:38                         ` Jonas Gorski
2023-10-18 14:33                           ` Huacai Chen
2023-10-20  9:51                             ` Binbin Zhou
2023-10-20 12:18                               ` Marc Zyngier
2023-10-25  1:56                                 ` Huacai Chen
2023-10-25  7:16                                   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-10-26  7:19                                     ` Huacai Chen
2023-10-29  7:42                                       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-10-30  9:56                                         ` Binbin Zhou
2023-08-30 14:35             ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-08-30 15:31               ` Jiaxun Yang
2023-08-31  1:47                 ` Binbin Zhou
2023-09-02  6:32                   ` Jianmin Lv
2023-09-04  7:40                     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski

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