[PATCH 2/2] drm: sti: adapt DT to fix probe/bind issues in DRM driver

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at st.com
Tue Aug 11 06:56:45 PDT 2015


Hi Olof,

On 07/17/2015 01:51 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> Dear ARM SoC Maintainers,
>
> On 07/17/2015 01:45 PM, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
>> STI drm drivers probe and bind using component framework was incorrect.
>> In addition to drivers fix DT update is needed to make all 
>> sub-components
>> become childs of sti-display-subsystem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard at linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407.dtsi | 82 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/stih410.dtsi | 82 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>>   2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
>>
>>
>
> This patch solves an issue preventing DRM driver probing, but it 
> breaks the DT ABI.
> For now, this driver and its DT node are only used by a few identified 
> people.
>
> Since these people only use aligned version of Kernel and DT, do you 
> accept we break the ABI for this time?
>

Just a gentle reminder.
Can we derogate for this patch?

Thanks in advance,
Maxime



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