On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:56:41PM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> It doesn't change any bindings fields, only remove one level of childs on DT.
> Old DTBs may not work but it will impact only very few peoples and no
> products so it isn't a problem.

I know, that can be said of most platforms, but the decision was made to
consider DT a stable ABI, so you can't just go and break it. You'll have
to take this up with the ARM SoC maintainers. In the past they've been
known to request people to go through extra pain to avoid breaking DT
backwards-compatibility.

> The patch fix driver and DT files so I don't think it could create issues.

That doesn't count. Somebody could still be using an old DTB and not be
able (or unwilling) to reflash it.

Irrespective, you're probably going to want to split up your patch into
driver and DTS changes. The DTS and binding changes will need to be
reviewed by the device tree maintainers, and I'd expect that the STi
maintainers will want to weigh in as well.

Thierry

> 2015-07-15 15:34 GMT+02:00 Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:21:46PM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> >> Fix misunderstanding in how use component framework.
> >> drm_platform_init() is now call only when all the
> >> sub-components are register themselves instead of the
> >> previous two stages mechanism.
> >>
> >> Update devicetree and bindings documentation according
> >> to this new behavior.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
> >> ---
> >>  .../devicetree/bindings/gpu/st,stih4xx.txt         |  7 +-
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407.dtsi                     | 82 +++++++++++-----------
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/stih410.dtsi                     | 82 +++++++++++-----------
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drm_drv.c                  | 45 ++----------
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c                     | 25 ++++---
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_tvout.c                    | 46 ++----------
> >>  6 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)
> >
> > Isn't this going to break DT ABI? How are you going to ensure backwards-
> > compatibility with old DTBs?
> >
> > Thierry
> 
> 
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