Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jun 2018 22:35:10 +0200 | From | Thomas Petazzoni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 12/16] dt-bindings/interrupt-controller: update Marvell ICU bindings |
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Hello,
On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:29:02 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:40:38AM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote: > > Change the documentation to reflect the new bindings used for Marvell > > ICU. This involves describing each interrupt group as a subnode of the > > ICU node. Each of them having their own compatible. > > Need to explain why you need to do this and why breaking backwards > compatibility is okay.
It does not break backward compatibility. The driver changes keep support for the previous DT binding where there was a single node with no subnodes.
The DT binding documentation still documents the legacy binding, because it is still supported, and still works.
Best regards,
Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
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