On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 10:52:40AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> > DT is supposed to contain information about the hardware, so it >> > should stay the same? I think there is no non-hackish way to decide >> >> compatible would change, at a minimum. > > why? I would expect it to stay the same (and the current patch uses > the same compatible strings). > Exactly, the new driver must support all the compatible strings defined in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/omap_serial.tx (which already does as you pointed out). Otherwise the current drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c could never be removed since that would mean breaking DT backward compatibility. > -- Sebastian Best regards, Javier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
