[PATCH v2 06/12] ARM: dts: apq8064: Add MDP support
Rob Clark
robdclark at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 14:01:51 PDT 2015
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> That's true, These are existing bindings, so I can't change it as part
>> of this patch, However I will make another patch to fix this in both
>> drivers and DT for good reasons. Just noticed that bindings are not
>> consistent with the examples and the driver, which I guess is another
>> issue.
>
> Yes, the driver/binding should be fixed and then this patch can be
> corrected and applied. There are no implementations of the DT for this
> device upstream in the dts directory so there's no breakage or backwards
> incompatibility problem by fixing the driver/binding.
jfyi, some of the current bindings are the way they are to simplify
compatibility w/ downstream kernels which I unfortunately still have
to deal with.. ofc, the sooner I don't have to deal w/ downstream
kernels, the easier it gets to clean up ;-)
ofc, since the number of devices that can run upstream kernel but
don't have upstream dts files is approximately zero, this would be a
case were it would be useful to be able to mark certain bindings as
non-abi and refactor them later.
BR,
-R
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