[PATCH] ARM: mach-ux500|nomadik|u300: Align to common DT bindings for mmci

[Ulf Hansson]

On 13 March 2014 18:47, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 01:32:43PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> As the first step in preparing the mmci driver for converting to the
>> mmc_of_parse API, let's align to the common names of DT bindings for
>> the mmc/sd highspeed modes.
>
> NAK.  These bindings have been documented as being there since March
> 14th 2012, and therefore need to be supported for ever by the driver.
> You can _augment_ the bindings with the generic ones, and change the
> DT files, but you can't remove the parsing of the old property names.

I was kind of expecting this response. :-)

So, since we made a mistake about adding these DT bindings we are now
unable to remove them, is there really no way back?

In this particular case, I am confident that it should be safe to
remove them, but I guess this is more matter of principle, right?

Kind regards
Ulf Hansson

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