linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] rewrite mtk-quadspi spi-nor driver with spi-mem

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Message-ID: <20200220195122.GL3926@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:51:22 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rewrite mtk-quadspi spi-nor driver with spi-mem

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 07:58:06AM +0800, Chuanhong Guo wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:55 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > This is an ABI break so you shouldn't be doing this, if the existing
> > binding works it should continue to work.

> The missing spi-max-frequency is the only part preventing old
> device tree to work with this driver.
> If the goal is to make existing dt binding work, I could patch dt using
> of_add_property in v2. I saw similar device tree patching for legacy
> bindings in pinctrl-single driver.

That's fine I think, so long as old DTs continue to work.

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