From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@foss.st.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] arm64: dts: ls1043a-qds: switch to new fixed-link binding
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:44:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aLNwuEqSqrUM3dW6@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2012185-0403-4bad-ad4a-e0468e11928d@gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 11:39:58PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 8/30/2025 11:27 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 12:27:23PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> >> The old array-type fixed-link binding has been deprecated
> >> for more than 10 yrs. Switch to the new binding.
> >
> > ... and the fact we have device trees that use it today means that we
> > can't remove support for it from the kernel.
> >
> After this series there is no in-tree user of the old binding any longer.
Doesn't matter. Please read Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ABI.rst
particularly the but about "newer kernel will not break on an older
device tree".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-30 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-30 10:26 [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: phy: remove support for deprecated array-style fixed-link binding Heiner Kallweit
2025-08-30 10:27 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] arm64: dts: ls1043a-qds: switch to new " Heiner Kallweit
2025-08-30 15:40 ` kernel test robot
2025-08-30 21:27 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-08-30 21:39 ` Heiner Kallweit
2025-08-30 21:44 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2025-09-01 19:39 ` Heiner Kallweit
2025-09-01 22:47 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-08-30 10:28 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] ARM: dts: ls1021a: " Heiner Kallweit
2025-08-30 15:41 ` kernel test robot
2025-08-30 10:28 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] ARM: dts: st: " Heiner Kallweit
2025-08-30 10:29 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: mdio: remove support for old " Heiner Kallweit
2025-08-30 10:31 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: phy: phylink: remove support for deprecated " Heiner Kallweit
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