From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753312Ab3H0QbB (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:31:01 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:38301 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751954Ab3H0Qa7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:30:59 -0400 Message-ID: <521CD43A.4040000@linutronix.de> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:30:50 +0200 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130821 Icedove/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olof Johansson CC: Kevin Hilman , Benoit Cousson , Javier Martinez Canillas , Stephen Rothwell , Greg KH , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Balbi , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the usb tree References: <20130827181353.319c150858829df1bb68d60b@canb.auug.org.au> <521C6961.9020103@linutronix.de> <521CA888.1080909@baylibre.com> <521CAF59.1090203@linutronix.de> <521CB046.9070408@baylibre.com> <878uznxjnl.fsf@linaro.org> <521CC4E3.8030204@linutronix.de> <20130827161203.GA22852@quad.lixom.net> In-Reply-To: <20130827161203.GA22852@quad.lixom.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/27/2013 06:12 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: > No. Read that email again. What Benoit said was that if Felipe was fine > with the change _HE_ would take it. Huge difference, and one that would have > avoided this situation. Yes, I'm sorry. > The only way to solve these things in the future is to make the driver handle > both the new and the old binding. Bindings are not supposed to change in > incompatible ways any more, unless for special circumstances and/or when the > old binding was completely broken. The old bindings were completly broken. > -Olof Sebastian