From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
Linuxppc-dev Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: removing get_immrbase()??
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:39:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DC91BA72-AF10-41DD-B610-EDEFD106A811@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EF8D42.7010104@freescale.com>
On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> 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.
The specific issue I'm talking about is the addition of new nodes that
might break old device trees. I have no desire to try and say that I
can't add new nodes and code related to them just because old device
tree's didn't have them.
- k
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-22 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 18:38 removing get_immrbase()?? Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 19:35 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 20:16 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 20:16 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 20:20 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 21:31 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 21:33 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 21:39 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2009-04-22 21:46 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 21:54 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 21:57 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 22:07 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 22:00 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 22:00 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 13:54 ` Grant Likely
2009-04-22 21:38 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 21:55 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 22:33 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 0:03 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 2:26 ` David Gibson
2009-04-23 3:36 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-23 4:06 ` David Gibson
2009-04-23 4:41 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-28 4:12 ` David Gibson
2009-04-28 13:48 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 13:07 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 15:56 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 13:02 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 13:50 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-23 14:02 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 14:06 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-23 14:09 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-24 14:40 ` Wrobel Heinz-R39252
2009-04-23 14:13 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-23 16:00 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 16:54 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-23 17:03 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 17:26 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-23 17:59 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-28 4:25 ` David Gibson
2009-04-28 4:21 ` David Gibson
2009-04-23 13:53 ` Grant Likely
2009-04-23 14:03 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-28 4:26 ` David Gibson
2009-04-22 19:44 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 20:00 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 20:30 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 13:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
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