Re: [PATCH 00/10] R-Car DU: Convert LVDS code to bridge driver

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Hi Laurent,

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:58 AM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch series addresses a design mistake that dates back from the initial
> DU support. Support for the LVDS encoders, which are IP cores separate from
> the DU, was bundled in the DU driver. Worse, both the DU and LVDS were
> described through a single DT node.
>
> To fix the, patches 01/10 and 02/10 define new DT bindings for the LVDS
> encoders, and deprecate their description inside the DU bindings. To retain
> backward compatibility with existing DT, patch 03/10 then patches the device
> tree at runtime to convert the legacy bindings to the new ones.

Looks like we will have to postpone the R-Car Gen2 Modern DT flag day
again by a few kernel releases?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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