From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932183AbeARJL0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:11:26 -0500 Received: from esa4.microchip.iphmx.com ([68.232.154.123]:17074 "EHLO esa4.microchip.iphmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbeARJLV (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:11:21 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,376,1511852400"; d="scan'208";a="10340015" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/16] drivers: pwm: core: use a single of xlate function To: Brian Norris CC: Andy Shevchenko , Thierry Reding , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Russell King - ARM Linux , Daniel Mack , Haojian Zhuang , Robert Jarzmik , Jonathan Corbet , Nicolas Ferre , Alexandre Belloni , , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arm Mailing List , , , , devicetree , Mike Dunn , Alexander Shiyan References: <1515766983-15151-1-git-send-email-claudiu.beznea@microchip.com> <1515766983-15151-2-git-send-email-claudiu.beznea@microchip.com> <20180112183512.GB102880@google.com> <6441df76-fb4a-ce00-1019-f7ff9143b75e@microchip.com> <9a130c0b-572d-be0b-8ac7-596714208d41@microchip.com> <20180117231357.GC112833@google.com> From: Claudiu Beznea Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:11:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180117231357.GC112833@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18.01.2018 01:14, Brian Norris wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:24:59AM +0200, Claudiu Beznea wrote: >> Please explain me further. From this I understand, as a general rule, >> that the device tree binaries from, e.g. 3 years ago, should be >> compatible with, e.g. the current version of kernel? > > Yes. > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ABI.txt > I agree, I found that after some research. Thanks, Claudiu