From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Pinchart Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:10:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] clk-mstp: add backwards comapt for indicies field Message-Id: <58097128.FjP4hkbmQo@avalon> List-Id: References: <1392314571-30107-3-git-send-email-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1392314571-30107-3-git-send-email-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Hi Ben, On Thursday 06 March 2014 19:06:35 Ben Dooks wrote: > On 13/02/14 23:15, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > Thank you for the patch. > > > > On Thursday 13 February 2014 18:02:51 Ben Dooks wrote: > >> Add comaptibiltiy for older device trees by checking to see if > >> the clock-indicies property is there and falling back to the > >> older renesas,clock-indices field. > > > > I would drop this patch. The Renesas clocks DT bindings are too new > > (v3.14-rc1, and for multiplatform kernels only) to be considered as stable > > in my opinion. > > I think this may be required as the current amount of development work being > done means that either we need to be at a point where we can merge the > driver change via Simon's tree, or to put the compatibility in and hope the > driver update goes in first before we merge the dts/dtsi changes. > > I'm not sure which is the best way to do this? I assume that backward compat will get the most votes, so I won't fight against it :-) -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart