On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:47 PM, Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 11:12:21 CEST Linus Walleij wrote: >> I think I replied in some other mail that I think we need to >> be backwards compatible and it's not too hard to do >> both. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) > > I think so too, I looked around and found that the nvidia pinctrl was > doing something similar with of_find_property(): > <https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.17-rc2/source/drivers/pinctrl/tegra/pinctrl-tegra.c#L652> > | has_prop = of_find_property(np, "gpio-ranges", NULL); > > However this looks kinda funny, since "has_prob" is declared as a bool > and of_find_property() returns a pointer to a "struct property".... > Tell you what: If nobody beats me to it, I'll sent a patch for this after > the pinctrl-msm's gpio-hog has been dealt with. :) Yeah the nVidia driver is one of the oldest and also at the time DT was kind of new. I haven't heard from Stephen for a while but I bet he will pop up, else check with Laxman, he's got a good grip on nVidia pinctrl+GPIO as well. > And as you can probably guess: The License is sold as a yearly subscription > starting from $150 for a single device. So, these devices became practically > e-waste since nobody in their right mind would buy a used device and then > fork over the ~$150 fee per annum. > > The MR24 craze is mostly over by now. You can still find a few. However > some listings are now selling them with OpenWrt/LEDE for ~$40. > > And obviously, this cycle will continue on, but now with the old wave1 > 802.11ac gear that gets replaced. In fact this business has spawned > companies that are actively working on supporting "old" enterprise gear > via their own OpenWrt/LEDE derivatives. Haha that is just awesome :D I hope they salvage a lot of them. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
