[PATCHv4 2/4] arm: dts: Change dw-apb-timer-osc and dw-apb-timer-sp to just dw-apb-timer

Dinh Nguyen dinguyen at altera.com
Fri Aug 23 18:44:43 EDT 2013


On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 16:20 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/22/2013 10:30 AM, dinguyen at altera.com wrote:
> > From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at altera.com>
> > 
> > "dw-apb-timer-osc" and "dw-apb-timer-sp" are the same implementation of the
> > DW APB timer, just fed by different clocks. Thus, deprecate both
> > "dw-apb-timer-osc" and "dw-apb-timer-sp" in lieu of "dw-apb-timer".
> 
> The binding change looks reasonable to me.
> 
> The *.dtsi change will cause the new DT not to work with older kernels
> that don't support the new compatible values. Perhaps you're fine with that?
> 
> I assume that the driver has already been updated to support the new
> values, and that the driver change is guaranteed to be merged before
> this change? Otherwise, git bisect will be broken for a while.
> 

Can I have your Acked-by: for these bindings? I just received an Ack
from Linus Walleij for the driver portion.

Thanks,
Dinh






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