On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:38:56AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 08/28/2013 12:22 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 03:41:42PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > >> On 08/27/2013 05:10 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > >>> I accidently put the devicetree bindings for the MEN A21 watchdog driver in > >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio instead of > >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog, this patch addresses this error. > >> > >>> Changes to v1: > >>> - Use named gpios, as suggested by Stephen Warren > >> > >> The move and the change to the binding should probably be separate > >> patches since they're logically separate things. I didn't intend you to > >> update the rename patch to fix the binding issue I pointed out. > >> > > > > Oops. Looks like I've misunderstood you there. I'll re-send the rename patch > > then. > > > >> Is the driver updated for this binding change? Are there DTs in released > >> kernels that won't work now, or is the driver very new; there may be a > >> need for the driver to support the old binding and the binding doc to > >> document the old gpios property, but mark it deprecated. > > > > The driver is not yet updated, this is why I've sent it as an RFC. Are the > > bindings acceptable this way? If yes I'll update the driver and re-send the > > bindings with the driver as a new patch series. > > Well, XXX says: > > > GPIO properties should be named "[<name>-]gpios" > > whereas in this patch, some of the renamed properties were "-gpio" > rather than "-gpios". Aside from that, the new binding looks reasonable. > > However, I see that the existing binding will be released as part of > v3.11. That implies that we should continue to support the old binding > for compatibility. As such, I'm not convinced whether it's worth > changing this binding now. Well I'm be perfectly happy with not changing the bindings and therefore not changing the driver. If this O.K. for you. Should I resend my 1st patch, or is it O.K. to pick up the old one? Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
