[PATCH 0/14] Refactor Ralink Pinctrl and Add Documentation
Arınç ÜNAL
arinc.unal at arinc9.com
Thu Apr 14 01:26:01 PDT 2022
On 13/04/2022 18:39, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 13/04/2022 08:36, Sergio Paracuellos wrote:
>> I think you cannot change compatible strings because you have to be
>> compatible with previous stuff. That is the reason why when I
>> refactored all of this stuff from 'arch/mips/ralink' into
>> 'drivers/pinctrl' I maintained the same for all of them and only
>> created one binding for all. I know that these SoCs are mostly used in
>> openWRT and the way of doing things there is that when a new version
>> is released a new dtb is also compiled so I understand the motivation
>> of the change itself. In any case, Rob has the last word here, not me
>> :).
>
> Breaking other users is usually not accepted, so some good reason would
> be needed here...
As I explained on my response to Sergio, this doesn't necessarily break
anything.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
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