On Thursday 28 February 2013, Shawn Guo wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 08:54:18PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 February 2013, Shawn Guo wrote: > > > > I wonder if we should leave support for old device trees files around, > > at least for a while. Your patch removes a lot of unnecessary code if > > we decide not to worry about backwards compatibility here, but I could > > imagine that we see a few surprises here. > > > I'm less concerned by that at this point. Though platform mxs has been > fully converted to device tree, device tree is still quite new for the > platform. The incompatible device tree should be acceptable, > considering we have noticed that when adding the temporary DMA binding > for client devices. > > /* > * TODO: This is a temporary solution and should be changed > * to use generic DMA binding later when the helper get in. > */ > > Unless we have these TODO remarks leave in the tree forever, we will > break old device tree sooner or later anyway. And I would have it > happen sooner than later. > > And I would start thinking about maintaining the device tree > compatibility for mxs after generic DMA binding adoption. Right. It's your decision anyway, and removing the code as early as possible has some advantages as well. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
