On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 09:56:29AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On Tuesday 07 July 2015 09:26:21 Simon Horman wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 04:29:33PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > On Monday 06 July 2015 12:55:32 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > Replace the deprecated generic "adi,adxl34x" compatible value by the > > > > adxl345-specific "adi,adxl345" value, cfr. commit e465bf6fc55d5ce2 ("DT: > > > > i2c: Deprecate adi,adxl34x compatible string"). > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > --- > > > > Depends on commit 3a38958d2477b718 ("Input: adxl34x - add OF match > > > > support"), which is in v4.2-rc1. > > > > > > > > This is v2 of "ARM: shmobile: kzm9g dts: Add adxl345-specific compatible > > > > property". > > > > It appears to me that this will cause a regression when booting old kernels > > with new dts blobs. For that reason think we should consider v1 > > of this change coupled with a schedule to remove use of the deprecated > > compat string. > > That's the forward compatibility that Geert mentioned, is that really an > issue, especially on this board ? I think it would be best to provide backwards compatibility unless there is a compelling reason not to. -- 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