Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!news.unit0.net!news.panservice.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Arnd Bergmann Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: uniphier: drop code for old DT binding Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 11:30:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: KMail/5.1.3 (Linux/4.4.0-22-generic; KDE/5.18.0; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:OksUOEtBwAxRymLH05g5OsczM4jZkTGULrfqOraK6cEQX6ao4qH y9d/uVIPnF0Edr8KcGJNlcNmg1lS9u3JtFk1KauKdSr7iJV1ggd7VI++kneWziaNh4W3gvs dc5B04MOySzNemFrpZEFjkTN6kw7/feWKt5vAB+hJs3YX3bOcYaA0mTASSQ7mCMqWGuMv2L oQNFf3H66919TZSchgzjQ== X-Ui-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:u26cVtAc8q8=:QrUwcdYSws5uV9dBq3Iuxl In1LiSy2yPI4fieN8awp4JlYJC/+XgAL6Z7+cmgGyvOFCPo0ogZM6KWAGJr5gF6w6B7PCeZCG Qf6ddrpwRZCwGWhpsIBqUV7RLDEk2LJWUz3tIqFViTaOdXemezzYgmTcS7InQDCNER2am6tEL BWaogKxeYcemeRdmnb9JC7miG2TZiJL2qprfw21jTirS55COQ3uH4Cs31mnQ2XCO6nD0tfdFp 8hZz6R21IUyyrzAwZ/jA60PaZCy1x8Q1muY9l4LzDSwtnKuBy2urDyyN34G0uiRzsciCaGtsE ljzUHNFIL0tkC772/q+/qfTQx5K4zvjlLeAtpE7XUZXbYGA2/0/colGalpMRwDXoSip9Srwpp e5vSm3B6B8/suyFKeVuzp4vD0SY4N/jMyUCFnu3t50OFF7lb9ZMGOmvnQZDzEjMnSurC14wRB Yyau63vaYHbagX7IvQGoiwIFvNhwV5YWjRl25Ieql50XWnYm35ymQSnHHU7+YAHUoPrRBwmof 6rdPX6fCEghlUYUpmO/cUBJYLtsZMjkHE34JSvTWEq4CNl06AHqIO0tbl5rIJbXq/EwBqKJab Kl3orNsJnzC7DWmqzScTg68Qk3BKiP83JIcNZraeEtGKzlli/Un5/uL5VuHlfCSHYax2Qw/wR wCyOHeDgcTBE30PN5UPkCa9i5aqRs2/vDqCmX+rvVzjPseBD+4ulqUlxq7iZAK/v2+SrviP4T wsoR8J3DzeqCKLlA Sender: robomod@news.nic.it List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 17 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway X-Original-Cc: Masahiro Yamada , arm@kernel.org, Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Original-Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 11:21:37 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <4992506.m4GEHIOqdc@wuerfel> X-Original-References: <1464682628-12163-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> X-Original-Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Xref: csiph.com linux.kernel:1410033 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 > 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