Re: [RFC] cpufreq: Add "dvfs-method" binding to probe cpufreq drivers

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On 28 November 2014 at 17:21, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> - Update those platforms to check if DT has "compatible" string in CPU
>> node.
>> If yes, don't create a device as this will be created by cpufreq-dt.
>>
>
> This fixes how it will work with new DTs, how about old DTs ?
> IMO we still need the blacklist kind of logic I sent before.

Yes..

> I don't think this is something acceptable, why will someone want to
> lose a working feature with new kernel.

If some platform maintainers care for cleaner/simpler code instead
of backward compatibility ..

For example, exynos has just started to use cpufreq-dt. Probably
in 3.18 or may be 19 as well.. So, they might not care about
backward compatibility at all.. Let me see if I can come up with
a solution that looks reasonably clean.

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