Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:35:56 +0100 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] ARM: sunxi: Convert pinctrl nodes to generic bindings |
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:16:23AM +0000, André Przywara wrote: > So can I ask that we start taking this seriously and stop doing things > which prevent Allwinner boards from being supported properly? > Which would first involve dropping this very patch?
The driver still supports the old binding.
> Having done breakage in the past (with "allwinner,sun7i-a20-mmc", for > instance) is no excuse for doing it again.
I'm not sure which breakage we introduced with a new compatible: the old compatible is working just like it used to, and the new one is working like we need it to.
> And especially I want to avoid this habit creeping into the arm64 > world (thinking about the H5 here, which may be impacted by this > very patch, for instance).
And again, if you looked at the entire serie, you would have seen that I took this into account.
Maxime
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