From: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"s.hauer@pengutronix.de" <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
"shawn.guo@linaro.org" <shawn.guo@linaro.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] ARM: dts: imx6: rename the uart's compatible property
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 18:43:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D2AEC1.6030004@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130702095645.GD31358@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
于 2013年07月02日 17:56, Mark Rutland 写道:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 07:30:26AM +0100, Huang Shijie wrote:
>> > The imx6 uart can supports the DMA, imx uart driver has added a new
>> > compatible property for the imx6 uart.
>> >
>> > In order to enable the DMA for some uart port in imx6, we rename the
>> > uart's compatible property to "fsl,imx6-uart".
> Doesn't this change break using these dts with an older kernel? You
is it reasonable to use a new dts with an old kernel?
> remove the "fsl,imx21-uart" string older kernels understand.
>
> Given you already had "fsl,imx6q-uart" and "fsl,imx6sl-uart" strings,
> would it not have made more sense to just add these to the driver?
I think it's not a good idea.
Shawn, what's your opinion about this?
thanks
Huang Shijie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-02 6:30 [PATCH 0/5] serial: imx: add DMA support for imx6 Huang Shijie
2013-07-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] serial: imx: distinguish the imx6 uart from the others Huang Shijie
2013-07-03 1:48 ` Shawn Guo
2013-07-03 1:52 ` Shawn Guo
2013-07-03 2:17 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 2/5] serial: imx: add DMA support for imx6 Huang Shijie
2013-07-03 3:38 ` Shawn Guo
2013-07-03 5:20 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] ARM: dts: imx6: rename the uart's compatible property Huang Shijie
2013-07-02 9:56 ` Mark Rutland
2013-07-02 10:43 ` Huang Shijie [this message]
2013-07-02 11:11 ` Mark Rutland
2013-07-03 2:15 ` Huang Shijie
2013-07-03 1:46 ` Shawn Guo
2013-07-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 4/5] ARM: dts: imx6: add dte pinctrl for uart2 Huang Shijie
2013-07-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] ARM: dts: enable the uart2 for imx6q-arm2 Huang Shijie
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