Re: [PATCH 00/10] R-Car DU: Convert LVDS code to bridge driver

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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> On Friday, 12 January 2018 11:47:03 EET Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:58 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > This patch series addresses a design mistake that dates back from the
> > > initial DU support. Support for the LVDS encoders, which are IP cores
> > > separate from the DU, was bundled in the DU driver. Worse, both the DU
> > > and LVDS were described through a single DT node.
> > > 
> > > To fix the, patches 01/10 and 02/10 define new DT bindings for the LVDS
> > > encoders, and deprecate their description inside the DU bindings. To
> > > retain backward compatibility with existing DT, patch 03/10 then patches
> > > the device tree at runtime to convert the legacy bindings to the new ones.
> > 
> > Looks like we will have to postpone the R-Car Gen2 Modern DT flag day
> > again by a few kernel releases?
> 
> Why so ? We don't have to drop support for all legacy DT bindings at the same 
> time, do we ? We can switch to the new-style clock bindings on Gen2 already, 
> and drop the legacy LVDS bindings later.

To clarify, after this patchset.
* Old DTs work with old and new kernels.
* New DTs require new kernels.

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