Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 3/3] ARM: dts: imx28-cfa10036: Fix the reset gpio signal polarity

Fabio Estevam
2018-10-09T12:36:56Z

Hi Michal,

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 5:30 AM Vokáč Michal <Michal.Vokac@ysoft.com> wrote:

> Sorry for the inconvenience :( Lesson learned..
>
> So in other words (no offense): broken drivers need to stay broken because
> users may already get used to the broken behavior?

In order to keep the old dtb's working you could introduce a new
property (like reset-gpio-active-low, for example).

Then the driver behavior can be made untouched for the old dtb's and
only new dtb's with this new property would have the correct GPIO
reset behavior.