Texas Instruments Finland Oy, Porkkalankatu 22, 00180 Helsinki. Y-tunnus/Business ID: 0615521-4. Kotipaikka/Domicile: Helsinki On 04/10/17 17:56, Rob Herring wrote: > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:53 PM, <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx> >> >> I have found the device tree overlay code to be difficult to read and >> maintain. This patch series attempts to improve that situation. >> >> The cleanup includes some changes visible to users of overlays. The >> only in kernel user of overlays is fixed up for those changes. The >> in kernel user is: >> >> drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave_compat.c > > At what point can we remove this? I'm assuming at some point users > will need to update their dtb's for other reasons and this becomes > obsolete. To be honest, I have no idea, or how to find that out. Do we need to get rid of it? Afaik, we haven't do much (or any?) maintenance on tilcdc_slave_compat.c since it was written, so from our perspective it's been a minimal burden. Is it creating burden for others? Is the approach done with tilcdc_slave_compat.c something that's not recommended? I'm sure similar situations happen with other drivers too, and I think it's a good idea to have a recommended way of keeping compatibility. Tomi -- 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
