[PATCHv4 2/4] arm: dts: Change dw-apb-timer-osc and dw-apb-timer-sp to just dw-apb-timer

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Aug 23 19:22:41 EDT 2013


On 08/23/2013 04:44 PM, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 16:20 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 08/22/2013 10:30 AM, dinguyen at altera.com wrote:
>>> From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at altera.com>
>>>
>>> "dw-apb-timer-osc" and "dw-apb-timer-sp" are the same implementation of the
>>> DW APB timer, just fed by different clocks. Thus, deprecate both
>>> "dw-apb-timer-osc" and "dw-apb-timer-sp" in lieu of "dw-apb-timer".
>>
>> The binding change looks reasonable to me.
>>
>> The *.dtsi change will cause the new DT not to work with older kernels
>> that don't support the new compatible values. Perhaps you're fine with that?
>>
>> I assume that the driver has already been updated to support the new
>> values, and that the driver change is guaranteed to be merged before
>> this change? Otherwise, git bisect will be broken for a while.
>>
> 
> Can I have your Acked-by: for these bindings? I just received an Ack
> from Linus Walleij for the driver portion.

Yes, the binding change,
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>



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