linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 12/16] dt-bindings/interrupt-controller: update Marvell ICU bindings

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Message-ID: <20180605223510.0249b86c@windsurf>
Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2018 22:35:10 +0200
From:   Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        Nadav Haklai <nadavh@...vell.com>,
        Haim Boot <hayim@...vell.com>, Hanna Hawa <hannah@...vell.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/16] dt-bindings/interrupt-controller: update
 Marvell ICU bindings

Hello,

On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:29:02 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:40:38AM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > Change the documentation to reflect the new bindings used for Marvell
> > ICU. This involves describing each interrupt group as a subnode of the
> > ICU node. Each of them having their own compatible.  
> 
> Need to explain why you need to do this and why breaking backwards 
> compatibility is okay.

It does not break backward compatibility. The driver changes keep
support for the previous DT binding where there was a single node with
no subnodes.

The DT binding documentation still documents the legacy binding,
because it is still supported, and still works.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com