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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
To: "Gupta, Pekon" <pekon@ti.com>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Seif Mazareeb <seif@marvell.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] mtd: Add NAND ECC devicetree binding
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:03:24 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140120170324.GA25652@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20980858CB6D3A4BAE95CA194937D5E73EA67E79@DBDE04.ent.ti.com>


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 06:21:35AM +0000, Gupta, Pekon wrote:
[..]
> >
> >Pekon, do you think this binding proposal is good enough to describe OMAP NAND
> >ECC mode?
> >
> >I'm not implying we should deprecate the recently added "ti-nand-ecc-opt",
> >but just want to know it's eventually possible.
> >
> Yes, this is good approach for long-term, and it can replace "ti-nand-ecc-opt"
> "ti-nand-ecc-opt" is not new DT binding, it just got some new values added
> However, you have to convince DT Maintainers to get this in, and then deprecate
> other vendor specific bindings. It would be difficult to maintain backward
> compatibility to these bindings, if we move to 'nand-ecc-strength'.
> 

Putting the DT maintainers on the To: field to get some feedback.

> At some-point we need to get some concrete guidelines from DT Maintainers on
> how long we should support deprecated bindings in our code, And what is the
> age of DT binding. I think David Woodhouse should throw more light, as he had
> some discussions & ideas on about DT binding life, during a linux conference.
> 

That's a good question :-)
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-20 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-17 12:13 [RFC/PATCH 0/1] mtd: Add NAND ECC devicetree binding Ezequiel Garcia
2014-01-17 12:13 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/1] mtd: nand: Add a devicetree binding for ECC strength and ECC step size Ezequiel Garcia
2014-02-12  8:00   ` Brian Norris
2014-02-12 17:32     ` [RFC/PATCH 1/1] mtd: nand: Add a devicetree binding for ECC strength and ECC step sizeç Ezequiel Garcia
2014-01-17 17:58 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/1] mtd: Add NAND ECC devicetree binding Gupta, Pekon
2014-01-17 20:33   ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-01-20  6:21     ` Gupta, Pekon
2014-01-20 17:03       ` Ezequiel Garcia [this message]
2014-02-12  7:44       ` Brian Norris
2014-01-20 19:48     ` Brian Norris

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