netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/dt: Add support for overriding phy configuration from device tree

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Message-ID: <1389883203.3720.7.camel@x230>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:40:04 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>
To:	"gsi@...x.de" <gsi@...x.de>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kishon@...com" <kishon@...com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/dt: Add support for overriding phy configuration
 from device tree

On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 14:59 +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote:

> These properties are booleans, and optional?  Does it mean that
> you cannot _disable_ broken features?  Or does it mean that you
> _must_ specify the non-broken features and thus break backwards
> compatibility?  Or are these properties not boolean (they are not
> used in the example either, unfortunately), and the binding text
> would need an update for clarity?  What am I missing?

They're not booleans. I'll update the text to make that clear.

-- 
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>