From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:14:57 -0600 > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > David Miller wrote: > >>> > >>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:10:12AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > >> If you guys created this format in your compressed openfirmware > >> trees, is it possible for you to "fix" it to match what Sparc > >> systems following the proper bindings do? > > > > Possibly, though it'll cause some pain when old trees are used with a kernel > > that expects the new binding. > > Ugh, more like loads of pain. There are deployed platforms using the > embedded 'invented' bindings. I don't think it is an option to break > compatibility with older trees. If there is some backwards > compatibility code then I'm all for migrating to the same binding as > Sparc and PowerMac You could even put the detection and reg property fixups in the device tree expander. This way generic code in drivers/of/of_i2c.c doesn't need to know about this huge mistake. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
