On 10 May 2017 at 14:32, Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I mean to clean up this situation. My question is: is this acceptable to >> support the same compatible string in two contexts? > > Depends on the context. ;) I think here it would be fine because you > have differing buses. > >> 1) For backward compatibility the first one would require specifying both: >> ccb-mii / MDIO register and DMP register. > > You don't need both in the DT. New DT and old OS is not a combination > we worry about. You either have the old binding or new one in the DT. > It's the driver that would need to probe the old way (presumably as a > platform device) and the new way as an mdio device. > > You can decide whether you need to support the old way or not. Depends > on who it would affect for your platform. Thank you for the help! I'll proceed with that. -- Rafał -- 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
