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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:35:53 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/6] dt-bindings: timestamp: Add Tegra234 support
To:     Dipen Patel <dipenp@nvidia.com>
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 1:02 AM Dipen Patel <dipenp@nvidia.com> wrote:

> However, as I understood, current point of contention/discussion is addition of the
> nvidia,gpio-controller property.

No I think you are talking past each other. Krzysztof talks about
a "removed property":

> Unfortunately, I don't understand this statement. The
> nvidia,tegra194-gte-aon with removed property is in a released kernel
> v6.2. What does it mean "technically"? It's a released kernel thus it is
> a released ABI.

The only property you remove is nvidia,slices, so deprecate it instead,
problem solved.

I don't think the added phandle is a problem, it can't cause backward
compatibility issues since it is new.

Yours,
Linus Walleij