[PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-sabresd: Do not place regulator nodes under simple-bus

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Wed Feb 12 12:22:05 EST 2014


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:57:36PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> As it stands, the dts are buggy. I can appreciate that you don't feel
>> this is important, but I do. It's not just an IMX issue, there is
>> widespread misunderstanding and abuse of simple-bus.
>>
>> Said abuse is relying on current Linux implementation details, and that
>> can and will create problems if and when probing code is changed.
>
> The reality is the code already gets no chance to change on this regard,
> considering the requirement that we need to maintain the interface
> between kernel and DT as ABI.  The dts have been there like this for
> 10 kernel releases or so.

What breakage do you see with this patch?



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