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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Köry Maincent" <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>,
	Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>,
	Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com>,
	Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
	Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: renesas: Fix rgmii-id delays
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 17:41:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YW7nPfzjstmeoMbf@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211019173520.0154a8cb@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>

> When people update the kernel version don't they update also the devicetree?

DT is ABI. Driver writers should not break old blobs running on new
kernels. Often the DT blob is updated with the kernel, but it is not
required. It could be stored in a hard to reach place, shared with
u-boot etc.

	Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-19 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-19 14:57 [PATCH] net: renesas: Fix rgmii-id delays Kory Maincent
2021-10-19 15:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-10-19 15:35   ` Köry Maincent
2021-10-19 15:41     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-10-19 15:57       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-10-19 20:05         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-10-20  8:53           ` Köry Maincent
2021-10-20  9:05             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-10-20 12:16             ` Andrew Lunn
2021-10-19 15:44     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-10-19 15:47 ` Andrew Lunn

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