linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] arm: tegra124: remove commas from unit addresses

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:45:55 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:	Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@...adex.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm: tegra124: remove commas from unit addresses

On 06/20/2016 10:40 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:50:26AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 06/18/2016 07:04 PM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
>>> Remove commas from unit addresses as suggested by Rob Herring upon me
>>> posting initial Apalis TK1 support:
>>>
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.tegra/26608
>>
>> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
>
> I'm confused now. I posted almost exactly the same patch a while ago and
> we agreed that we couldn't do this because the node names were to be
> considered part of the ABI.
>
> Is it or is it not?

The particular case where it matters is the GPU node, which U-Boot 
manipulates. This revised patch version no longer renames the GPU node 
and so in practice avoids any issues that I'm aware of.

If there's a more general rule that node names are part of the ABI, then 
indeed we shouldn't take this patch.