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Re: [PATCH] ARM: uniphier: drop code for old DT binding

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On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 5:17:08 PM CEST Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Commit 307d40c56b0c ("ARM: uniphier: rework SMP code to support new
> System Bus binding") added a new DT binding for SMP code, but still
> kept old code for the backward compatibility.
> 
> Linux 4.6 was out with both bindings supported, so it should not
> hurt to drop the old code now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> 

That explanation is in general not sufficient. Are you sure that
nobody is shipping a machine with their own dts file that is not
merged upstream, and that there are no bootloaders that have a
hardcoded dtb file that we need to support indefinitely?

	Arnd

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[PATCH] ARM: uniphier: drop code for old DT binding Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-05-31 10:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ARM: uniphier: drop code for old DT binding Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-05-31 11:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] ARM: uniphier: drop code for old DT binding Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-06-01 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] ARM: uniphier: drop code for old DT binding Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-06-01 09:50 +0200

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