From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the usb tree Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:30:50 +0200 Message-ID: <521CD43A.4040000@linutronix.de> References: <20130827181353.319c150858829df1bb68d60b@canb.auug.org.au> <521C6961.9020103@linutronix.de> <521CA888.1080909@baylibre.com> <521CAF59.1090203@linutronix.de> <521CB046.9070408@baylibre.com> <878uznxjnl.fsf@linaro.org> <521CC4E3.8030204@linutronix.de> <20130827161203.GA22852@quad.lixom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:38301 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751954Ab3H0Qa7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:30:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130827161203.GA22852@quad.lixom.net> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Olof Johansson Cc: Kevin Hilman , Benoit Cousson , Javier Martinez Canillas , Stephen Rothwell , Greg KH , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Balbi , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On 08/27/2013 06:12 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: > No. Read that email again. What Benoit said was that if Felipe was fine > with the change _HE_ would take it. Huge difference, and one that would have > avoided this situation. Yes, I'm sorry. > The only way to solve these things in the future is to make the driver handle > both the new and the old binding. Bindings are not supposed to change in > incompatible ways any more, unless for special circumstances and/or when the > old binding was completely broken. The old bindings were completly broken. > -Olof Sebastian