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 r8a7779 SoC.
>
> As the driver does not match on "renesas,gpio-r8a7779" 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
gen1
> 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>
Apart from that:
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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