From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olof Johansson Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:23:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] ARM: dts: Add compatible property to "partitions" node Message-Id: <20151222212350.GF30172@localhost> List-Id: References: <1450694033-27717-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> In-Reply-To: <1450694033-27717-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Hi, On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:33:44AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi, > > As of commit e488ca9f8d4f62c2 ("doc: dt: mtd: partitions: add compatible > property to "partitions" node"), which is in v4.4-rc6, the "partitions" > subnode of an SPI FLASH device node must have a compatible property. The > partitions are no longer detected if it is not present. > > However, several DTSes in -next have already been converted to the > "partitions" subnode without "compatible" property, introduced by > commits 5cfdedb7b9a0fe38 ("mtd: ofpart: move ofpart partitions to a > dedicated dt node") and fe2585e9c29a650a ("doc: dt: mtd: support > partitions in a special 'partitions' subnode"). Hence all of these are > now broken in -next, and will be broken in upstream during the merge > window. So, if I understand this correctly, the partitions format was added for v4.4, then this non-backwards compatible change was added in -rc6. But, there were also DT files that had the new-for-v4.4 partitions nodes in them that then stopped working in -rc6? That sounds like a regression, so this should be picked up as fixes for v4.4. Please confirm that I've understood the setup correctly, and I'll apply the series directly to fixes. -Olof