[PATCH V2 5/5] ARM: remove #gpio-ranges-cells property

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon Jul 15 19:02:29 EDT 2013


On 07/15/2013 01:34 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 01:40 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>
>> This property is no longer required by the GPIO binding. Remove it.
> 
> Won't this break compatibility with older kernel? It is one thing to
> deprecate, but removal is another. If the relevant maintainers don't
> care, then I guess it is fine.

Yes.

I had originally hoped this could sneak in late for 3.11, but I suppose
it's too late now. vf610.dtsi is a new file in 3.11 so has no legacy to
protect.

Admittedly, the #gpio-cells property was added into the SPEAr files in 3.10.



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