Re: [PATCH 00/10] R-Car DU: Convert LVDS code to bridge driver

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Geert,

On Friday, 12 January 2018 11:47:03 EET Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:58 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > This patch series addresses a design mistake that dates back from the
> > initial DU support. Support for the LVDS encoders, which are IP cores
> > separate from the DU, was bundled in the DU driver. Worse, both the DU
> > and LVDS were described through a single DT node.
> > 
> > To fix the, patches 01/10 and 02/10 define new DT bindings for the LVDS
> > encoders, and deprecate their description inside the DU bindings. To
> > retain backward compatibility with existing DT, patch 03/10 then patches
> > the device tree at runtime to convert the legacy bindings to the new ones.
> 
> Looks like we will have to postpone the R-Car Gen2 Modern DT flag day
> again by a few kernel releases?

Why so ? We don't have to drop support for all legacy DT bindings at the same 
time, do we ? We can switch to the new-style clock bindings on Gen2 already, 
and drop the legacy LVDS bindings later.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart