[PATCH 04/12] dt-bindings: irqchip: ti, sci-intr: Update bindings to drop the usage of gic as parent

Lokesh Vutla lokeshvutla at ti.com
Thu Jul 9 05:40:58 EDT 2020


Hi Marc,

On 15/06/20 2:04 pm, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2020-06-15 09:03, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> On 01/06/20 5:06 pm, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
>>> Hi Marc,
>>>
>>> On 29/05/20 3:48 pm, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> On 2020-05-29 11:14, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
>>>>> Hi Rob,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29/05/20 3:44 am, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 06:14:46PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
>>>>>>> Drop the firmware related dt-bindings and use the hardware specified
>>>>>>> interrupt numbers within Interrupt Router. This ensures interrupt router
>>>>>>> DT node need not assume any interrupt parent type.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I didn't like this binding to begin with, but now you're breaking
>>>>>> compatibility.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I do agree that this change is breaking backward compatibility. But IMHO,
>>>>> this does cleanup of firmware specific properties from DT. Since this is not
>>>>> deployed out yet in the wild market, I took the leverage of breaking backward
>>>>> compatibility. Before accepting these changes from firmware team, I did
>>>>> discuss[0] with Marc on this topic.
>>>>
>>>> And I assume that should anyone complain about the kernel being broken
>>>> because they have an old firmware, you'll be OK with the patches being
>>>> reverted, right?
>>>
>>> I am assuming there is no one to complain as there is no product available yet
>>> with upstream kernel. Internally everyone is aware of the changes. So, yes I
>>> would agree with you to revert the changes if someone really needs it. :)
>>
>> Any chance you can shower your blessings on this series :)
> 
> I have purposely ignored it just before and during the merge window. It is now
> firmly in my review queue.

rc4 is tagged now. Do you want me to rebase, split the series and repost it?

Thanks and reagrds,
Lokesh

> 
>         M.



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