On 2015/12/9 18:00, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2015 17:25:13 Yankejian wrote: >> thanks a lot for pointing it out. >> >> It is great regret that this change breaks compatibility with old dtbs. >> this is a new driver which is run on developing boards, and all the >> clients' boards are developing boards. So we provide them a method to >> update the firmware on the board, once we update the dtsi and kernel, >> we require our clients to update the existed firmware and kernel. >> Therefore, these changes is actually under control. Shall we treat this >> by this way? > Ok, if you can show that the incompatible change is safe to do, that's > fine. Just put the explanation above into the patch description to > document that you have considered the effects of the change, and > to ensure that it gets done atomically. > > Also, you have to merge the two patches into one to allow bisection, > or do a series of three patches that need to be applied in order: > > 1. add ae-handle property > 2. change driver to use that property > 3. remove ae-name property > > Arnd > > . > Ok, thanks for your good advices. i will change it in V2 PATCH. Bset Regards yankejian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
