linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 012/135] ASoC: cs42l56: Fix reset GPIO name in example DT binding

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Message-ID: <4dd7e1fd-b7a9-2dfa-074d-de9056fbaeee@ti.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Dec 2017 11:03:42 -0600
From:   "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 012/135] ASoC: cs42l56: Fix reset GPIO
 name in example DT binding

On 12/08/2017 05:36 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:03:01PM +0000, alexander.levin@...izon.com wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 05:25:02PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> We shouldn't be getting into adding completely new DT properties in
>>> stable backports like this.  Old kernels have the bindings they have.
> 
>> I thought that this one just adjust the example to match the code, and
>> doesn't actually change anything?
> 
> No, there's a corresponding code change - the changelog is badly written.
> 

Not this patch, this one was just the example was wrong, the driver
looks for, and always did look for, the "cirrus,gpio-nreset".

Only the tlv* drivers looked for the other property and needed code
changing, and those are separate patches.