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Kumar Gala wrote:

> I disagree.  If you update your kernel you should update your device  
> tree (thus we have .dts in the kernel tree and not somewhere else).

Is this a new policy?  I was under the impression that supporting older
device trees, if not too inconvenient, is desirable.  I've nack'd
patches before that broke backwards compatibility unnecessarily.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale