Hi Simon, On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Use newly added R-Car GPIO Gen1 fallback compat string > in place of now deprecated non-generation specific > R-Car GPIO fallback compat string in DT of r8a7778 SoC. > > As the driver does not match on "renesas,gpio-r8a7778" there > are some run-time considerations for this patch: > > * When a resulting DTB is used with kernels newer than v4.14 this should > not have any run-time effect as renesas,rcar-gen2-gpio is matched by the renesas,rcar-gen1-gpio > driver since commit dbd1dad2ab8f ("gpio: rcar: add gen[123] fallback > compatibility strings") > > * However, when used with older kernels GPIO will be disabled as > no compat string match will be made by the driver. > > The regression documented above for the new DTB with old kernel case > is acceptable in my opinion. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7778.dtsi > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7778.dtsi > @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ > }; > > gpio0: gpio@ffc40000 { > - compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7778", "renesas,gpio-rcar"; > + compatible = "renesas,gpio-r8a7778", "renesas,rcar-gen2-gpio"; renesas,rcar-gen1-gpio The compatible values for the other nodes are correct. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds