From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:21:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] ARM: dts: Add compatible property to "partitions" node Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1450694033-27717-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <20151222212350.GF30172@localhost> <87egedfmsm.fsf@free-electrons.com> In-Reply-To: <87egedfmsm.fsf@free-electrons.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Hi Olof, Gregory, On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > On mar., d=C3=A9c. 22 2015, Olof Johansson wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:33:44AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> 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 th= en >> stopped working in -rc6? > > At least for the mvebu dts, the change was added for v4.5 not > v4.4. Currently it is only in the next branches (and also in your > arm-soc tree in next/dt). The same is true for the shmobile changes: they are queued up for v4.5. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k= .org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t= hat. -- Linus Torvalds