Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756624AbbDJVBz (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:01:55 -0400 Received: from mail-vn0-f49.google.com ([209.85.216.49]:33918 "EHLO mail-vn0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753664AbbDJVBw (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:01:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <552830C9.4030601@codeaurora.org> References: <1428669187-10775-1-git-send-email-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> <1428669271-11032-1-git-send-email-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> <552802B6.2040804@codeaurora.org> <552826F6.5040105@linaro.org> <552830C9.4030601@codeaurora.org> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:01:51 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] ARM: dts: apq8064: Add MDP support From: Rob Clark To: Stephen Boyd Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla , Kumar Gala , linux-arm-msm , Bjorn Andersson , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Russell King , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1390 Lines: 30 On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote: >> That's true, These are existing bindings, so I can't change it as part >> of this patch, However I will make another patch to fix this in both >> drivers and DT for good reasons. Just noticed that bindings are not >> consistent with the examples and the driver, which I guess is another >> issue. > > Yes, the driver/binding should be fixed and then this patch can be > corrected and applied. There are no implementations of the DT for this > device upstream in the dts directory so there's no breakage or backwards > incompatibility problem by fixing the driver/binding. jfyi, some of the current bindings are the way they are to simplify compatibility w/ downstream kernels which I unfortunately still have to deal with.. ofc, the sooner I don't have to deal w/ downstream kernels, the easier it gets to clean up ;-) ofc, since the number of devices that can run upstream kernel but don't have upstream dts files is approximately zero, this would be a case were it would be useful to be able to mark certain bindings as non-abi and refactor them later. BR, -R -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/