[PATCH] arm64: dts: ensure backward compatibility of the AP807 Xenon

Marcin Wojtas mw at semihalf.com
Wed Jun 16 12:12:37 PDT 2021


Hi!

śr., 12 maj 2021 o 17:50 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):
>
> Hi Gregory,
>
> pon., 22 mar 2021 o 13:14 Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> napisał(a):
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 01:39:15AM +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > > A recent switch to a dedicated AP807 compatible string for the Xenon
> > > SD/MMC controller result in the driver not being probed when
> > > using updated device tree with the older kernel revisions.
> > > It may also be problematic for other OSs/firmware that use
> > > Linux device tree sources as a reference. Resolve the problem
> > > with backward compatibility by restoring a previous compatible
> > > string as secondary one.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> >
>
> Do you have any feedback about this patch? I just noticed it's not
> merged in v5.13-rc1, it would be great to have it in the next release
> though.
>

Kind reminder. We are approaching v5.13 and it would be really great
to have this fix in time.

Thanks,
Marcin



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