On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:47:33PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 08:23:05PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:11:57PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> >> On Renesas R-Car Gen2 SoCs, the pin group for the MDIO bus is named > >> >> "mdio". > >> >> > >> >> When initial support was added for R-Car H3, the MDIO pin was forgotten, > >> >> and the MDC pin got its own group named "mdc". During the addition of > >> >> support for R-Car M3-W, this mistake was noticed. But as R-Car H3 and > >> >> M3-W are pin compatible, and can be mounted on the same boards, the > >> >> decision was made to just add the MDIO pin to the existing "mdc" group. > >> >> Later this was extended to R-Car H3 ES2.0, and M3-N, because of pin > >> >> compatibility, and to R-Car D3, in the name of consistency among R-Car > >> >> Gen3 SoCs. > >> >> > >> >> However, this decision keeps on being questioned when adding new SoC > >> >> support. Hence bite the bullet and admit our mistake, and rename the > >> >> pin group from "mdc" to "mdio", like on R-Car Gen2 SoCs. > >> >> > >> >> This series is the DTS part, and depends on the series '[PATCH 0/6] > >> >> pinctrl: sh-pfc: rcar-gen3: Rename EtherAVB "mdc" pin group to "mdio"'. > >> > > >> > could you comment on the forwards/backwards compatibility considerations > >> > of this series? > >> > >> Old and new kernels work with old DT (tested on Salvator-X(S). > >> New DT requires a new kernel, hence the dependency of the DTS part on the > >> driver part. > > > > Thanks, that is fine by me. > > > > I have marked these patches as deferred. Please repost or ping me > > once the dependency is available in an RC release. > > Now in v4.17-rc1. Thanks, applied.
