RE: [PATCH 3/3 v2] clk: qoriq: update clock driver

[Andy Tang <andy.tang@nxp.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
> Sent: 2018年10月25日 2:37
> To: Andy Tang <andy.tang@nxp.com>; sboyd@kernel.org;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] clk: qoriq: update clock driver
> 
> On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 10:11 +0800, andy.tang@nxp.com wrote:
> > From: Yuantian Tang <andy.tang@nxp.com>
> >
> > Legacy bindings are deleted. So the legacy support in driver can be
> > deleted safely.
> 
> NACK (both this and 2/3).  The legacy support is intended to preserve
> compatibility, regardless of what the dts files in the current kernel tree do.
>  If years later we find it's been broken for a while and nobody complained,
> then maybe it'll be time to remove it, but why deliberately throw away
> compatibility the instant the users have been removed from reference
> DTs that might be copied by board vendors, etc?
> 
> Note that even if we didn't care about long-term compatibility at all,
> removing the support in the same patchset as the change to the dts files
> means that the patches can't go in via separate trees (though if that's still
> the intent, you should make it clear who you're asking to take what by
> putting them in separate patchsets).

Points are taken. Will update this patch set. Thanks a lot.

BR,
Andy
> 
> -Scott