From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: of_mdio: Add marvell,88e1145 to whitelist of PHY compatibilities.
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 21:28:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160203202811.GB10262@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B25F8D.6070809@caviumnetworks.com>
> The compatibility strings may be present in deployed firmware, they
> cannot be removed. For many OCTEON boards, the device tree is a
> firmware-kernel ABI, it is not practical to unilaterally decide to
> change the bindings on the kernel side as you don't control the
> firmware.
Hi David
We are keeping backwards compatibility. The kernel has always ignored
this string, and will continue to always ignore this string. But since
it is being ignored, you may as well remove it in future versions of
the DTB.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-03 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-03 19:35 [PATCH] of: of_mdio: Add marvell,88e1145 to whitelist of PHY compatibilities Aaro Koskinen
2016-02-03 20:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-03 20:14 ` David Daney
2016-02-03 20:28 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2016-02-03 21:21 ` Aaro Koskinen
2016-02-03 20:50 ` Aaro Koskinen
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