Hello Sylwester,
On 10/21/2016 11:14 AM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> On 10/21/2016 03:58 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> The samsung,power-domain was made deprecated (although not explicitly)
>> in January 2015 (0da658704136 ("ARM: dts: convert to generic power
>> domain bindings for exynos DT")) so how about:
>> 1. Printing a dev_warn() about usage of deprecated bindings.
>> 2. Complete removal in January 2017?
>
> I doubt anyone will ever use new mainline kernel with older dts/dtb
> so IMHO it makes sense to queue a patch removing support for the
> deprecated compatible just now and don't bother with a warning.
>
FWIW I agree with you. I don't know of any Exynos machine that ships a DT
as read-only. Even consumer devices like the Exynos Chromebooks use a FIT
image (kernel + FDT bundled), so the DT can always be updated.
Removing the support for the deprecated property sound sensible to me.
Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America
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