From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753125AbaBQXj2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:39:28 -0500 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:59639 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751221AbaBQXj1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:39:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:39:11 +0900 From: Mark Brown To: "Opensource [Steve Twiss]" Cc: Lee Jones , Liam Girdwood , David Dajun Chen , LKML , Philipp Zabel Message-ID: <20140217233911.GB2669@sirena.org.uk> References: <201402131031.s1DAVWrJ023725@swsrvapps-01.diasemi.com> <20140214093435.GI3403@lee--X1> <6ED8E3B22081A4459DAC7699F3695FB78F97CB13@SW-EX-MBX02.diasemi.com> <20140214145643.GA4451@sirena.org.uk> <6ED8E3B22081A4459DAC7699F3695FB78F97D757@SW-EX-MBX02.diasemi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qcHopEYAB45HaUaB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6ED8E3B22081A4459DAC7699F3695FB78F97D757@SW-EX-MBX02.diasemi.com> X-Cookie: Don't read everything you believe. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 106.188.99.154 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [RFC V1] mfd: da9063: Add support for production silicon variant code X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:18:43PM +0000, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote: > Some registers in the new variant make backwards compatibility easy, > however attempting to combine the two register maps in other components > makes the driver a mess.=20 OK, that makes sense - if the changes really are substantial then dropping the old revisions can be reasonable. > I realise that the Linux community will have different aims however and= =20 > I would like to support those as much as I can. It's not just the community here - it's just a general thing with users, the same issues face people using out of tree drivers (though communication with the developers is often weaker there). --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTAp2cAAoJELSic+t+oim9LZIP/2U3mYYkC/7+BmKq6l2QfWfs kDWJ3+abdyD44Dat/DWdL+cS0SFK1cmP/EDqL0GYKCwM9sPl6UzEWZpdvzVV7FQ/ Qtwnplkv3HOVga9L4M/h3rX73iLwF1wyvAKT+9HN8Q972k+na5kZjcMxE2VqCqiV lOskmdpa/MuUMpHnLlfO8tutY9RXeCgh2UeCPgOLl4mW4nKh4b1+SLe2GK7ejMwK Q8zxFMmfRA6YRalE6sEiAtg+4LCO/8bkQoy2dFAcK/wK+Ui/JMvCyVz9YhutwSKv rTZWTx0ROYBG6+9MVgXI+ASXJYDiFI4tnVvHr6kC2bvUHZ0bq3kiUScseP6kkffs uynib0+D9/axIwFQ7wg4eEO02vtJiEvD/Km1zHHFnVuBS9nYUjAjyjzAOTJgjOiC anOFgGsCRhVvLPCBq8Okux+I0Ig7qvT3cLTJcxHUzG6fZYnUWYXjz8S/fqrwMYCb dHXR2qmWU6Zvggj/DtN3V/3Km9SblZPs9JT1w0WOeS2eBtolyb9W2k/PDIx86b7k 0+5UCx1zPx4jTIZazZSIlyV7QlAuEFg+CUKbm4cixFUTQDula52MrdQJn8Moo40P X/B28b0VpequyzmprGkfMyaJc4y+6BAJCbGQemOuSZnIXT1bRUzwfcSefziDW031 rSxDQPwd8DHqSRcGke2w =VFdC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB--