[PATCH v3 4/6] [media] c8sectpfe: Update binding to reset-gpios
Lee Jones
lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Sep 1 00:58:11 PDT 2015
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Peter Griffin
> <peter.griffin at linaro.org> wrote:
> > gpio.txt documents that GPIO properties should be named
> > "[<name>-]gpios", with <name> being the purpose of this
> > GPIO for the device.
> >
> > This change has been done as one atomic commit.
>
> dtb and kernel updates are not necessarily atomic, so you are breaking
> compatibility with older dtbs. You should certainly highlight that in
> the commit message.
Good idea.
> I only point this out. I'll leave it to platform
> maintainers whether or not this breakage is acceptable.
This driver is new. The 'original' bindings are in next. So this
binding is not even close to being ABI.
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