Hi Yakir,
Am Montag, 24. August 2015, 20:48:01 schrieb Yakir Yang:
> 在 08/24/2015 12:20 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski 写道:
> > On 24.08.2015 11:42, Yakir Yang wrote:
> >> Hi Krzysztof,
> >>
> >> 在 08/23/2015 07:43 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski 写道:
> >>> 2015-08-24 8:23 GMT+09:00 Rob Herring <robherring2@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Yakir Yang <ykk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>> Analogix dp driver is split from exynos dp driver, so we just
> >>>>> make an copy of exynos_dp.txt, and then simplify exynos_dp.txt
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Beside update some exynos dtsi file with the latest change
> >>>>> according to the devicetree binding documents.
> >>>>
> >>>> You can't just change the exynos bindings and break compatibility. Is
> >>>> there some agreement with exynos folks to do this?
> >>>
> >>> No, there is no agreement. This wasn't even sent to Exynos maintainers.
> >>
> >> Sorry about this one, actually I have add Exynos maintainers in version
> >> 1 & version 2,
> >> but lose some maintainers in version 3, I would fix it in bellow
> >> versions.
> >>
> >>> Additionally the patchset did not look interesting to me because of
> >>> misleading subject - Documentation instead of "ARM: dts:".
> >>>
> >>> Yakir, please:
> >>> 1. Provide backward compatibility. Mark old properties as deprecated
> >>> but still support them.
> >>
> >> Do you mean that I should keep the old properties declare in
> >> exynos-dp.txt,
> >> but just mark them as deprecated flag.
> >
> > That is one of ways how to do this. However more important is that
> > driver should still support old bindings so such code:
> > - if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "samsung,color-space",
> > + if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "analogix,color-space",
> >
> > is probably wrong. Will the driver support old DTB in the same way as it
> > was supporting before the change?
>
> Okay, I got your means. So document is not the focus, the most important
> is that
> driver should support the old dts prop. If so the new analogix dp driver
> should keep
> the "samsung,color-space", rather then just mark it with [DEPRECATED] flag.
>
> But from your follow suggest, I think you agree to update driver code,
> and just mark
> old prop with deprecated flag. If so I think such code would not be wrong
>
> - if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "samsung,color-space",
> + if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "analogix,color-space",
In a generic driver, the property should have either none, or the analogix
prefix. But DT-properties need to be backwards compatible, meaning an older
Exynos devicetree should run unmodified with a newer kernel.
So the common course of action is to mark the old one as deprecated but still
test for both, so something like:
if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "analogix,color-space",
&dp_video_config->color_space))
if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "samsung,color-space",
&dp_video_config->color_space)) {
dev_err(dev, "failed to get color-space\n");
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}
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