On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:00:59AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On Monday, 15 January 2018 08:57:48 EET Simon Horman wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > 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. > > That's correct. I've tested old DTs with new kernels successfully on Lager, > Salvator-X (both H3 ES1.x and M3-W) and Salvator-XS. Thanks, no objections to this approach from my side. -- 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
