[PATCH] ARM: dts: fix MMC2 regulators for Exynos5420 Arndale Octa board

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Oct 9 04:41:07 PDT 2014


On Thursday 09 October 2014 10:46:59 Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 8 October 2014 20:28, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 October 2014 08:29:16 Doug Anderson wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> >> > Why does it cause a regression though? Does this mean you are breaking
> >> > any boot with an old DT file and a new kernel? That would be very
> >> > bad, the driver is supposed to keep working with an existing dtb.
> >>
> >> The old dts file specified completely the wrong regulator.  It
> >> happened that the old code didn't really care, but when the code was
> >> fixed to care then things broke.  If we need to keep old dts files
> >> working then the most sensible place to do it would be in a "fixup old
> >> broken device trees" stage somewhere in kernel boot.
> >
> > Ok, got it. I guess it's better to apply this one first then.
> >
> >         Arnd
> 
> Thanks for your comments Arnd! I have applied this once to my mmc tree
> now. Please tell me soon if you want to carry this through arm-soc
> instead, thus I can drop it.

No, please take it yourself, Linus has already taken the arm-soc pull
requests.

	Arnd



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