[PATCH net-next 1/5] arm64: dts: ls1043a-qds: switch to new fixed-link binding
Russell King (Oracle)
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Sat Aug 30 14:44:24 PDT 2025
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 11:39:58PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 8/30/2025 11:27 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 12:27:23PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> >> The old array-type fixed-link binding has been deprecated
> >> for more than 10 yrs. Switch to the new binding.
> >
> > ... and the fact we have device trees that use it today means that we
> > can't remove support for it from the kernel.
> >
> After this series there is no in-tree user of the old binding any longer.
Doesn't matter. Please read Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ABI.rst
particularly the but about "newer kernel will not break on an older
device tree".
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