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On Thursday 28 November 2013 04:41 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 04:28:07PM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
>> On Thursday 28 November 2013 04:24 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> That means that if you switch all resources to _byname then the driver
>>> won't find any resources at all and will fail.  This will in turn mean
>>> that any device trees that work with the current code wil start failing,
>>> breaking compatibility.
>> I am changing my code to use *byname for all resources. There is no
>> dts available now in mainline using this code. I have added the dts file
>> as patch 15, 16 of this series to take care of this.
> We're now aiming for DT to be a stable interface and the existing
> binding has been included in a release so you really ought to be keeping
> compatiblity.
Ok. So I will check for *byname, if not found I will switch to 
"platform_get_resource".