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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:19:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] gpio: sprd: Change to use SoC compatible string
To:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
        Lyra Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:30 AM Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> wrote:

> Change to use SoC compatible string instead of wildcard string.
>
> The Spreadtrum SC9860 platform device trees and drivers' development
> are still in progress, and now we will always recompile and ship
> device trees at the same time as we will compile and ship the kernel,
> so we do not need care about the backwards compatibility.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
> ---
> Changes from v2:
>  - Add some comments to explain why we do not care backwards compatibility.

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij