On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. If no one notices, then there is no ABI. Things break all the time when nobody cares. It will be more than a few releases for sure. We may never get to step 3, but we should do step 1 so people stop copy-n-pasting this in step 2. Rob -- 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
