On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 12:07 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: [...] > This patch is derived from Rob Herring' comment > "BTW, we should also kill off "amba-bus" which is an ambiguous term" > in the following thread: > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.0/01822.html > > > So, the plan would be like this: > > [1] Make device trees not depend on "arm,amba-bus" (this commit) > [2] New device trees should no longer use "arm,amba-bus" alone. > [3] Go though some releases until we do not care about the backward > compatibility Why would we stop caring about backwards compatibility? If I was a user of any of the platforms in question and updated my kernel, I wouldn't expect to have to debug why it was broken, then install a new dtb to fix it - which may be a tricky thing to do, depending on the firmware used to boot Linux. > [4] Drop "arm,amba-bus" from of_default_bus_match_table -- Tixy -- 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
