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From: swarren@wwwdotorg•org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2 5/5] ARM: remove #gpio-ranges-cells property
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:02:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E47F85.4050905@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E44ED9.9020807@gmail.com>

On 07/15/2013 01:34 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 01:40 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia•com>
>>
>> This property is no longer required by the GPIO binding. Remove it.
> 
> Won't this break compatibility with older kernel? It is one thing to
> deprecate, but removal is another. If the relevant maintainers don't
> care, then I guess it is fine.

Yes.

I had originally hoped this could sneak in late for 3.11, but I suppose
it's too late now. vf610.dtsi is a new file in 3.11 so has no legacy to
protect.

Admittedly, the #gpio-cells property was added into the SPEAr files in 3.10.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-15 18:40 [PATCH V2 1/5] gpio: clean up gpio-ranges documentation Stephen Warren
2013-07-15 18:40 ` [PATCH V2 2/5] of: move documentation of of_parse_phandle_with_args Stephen Warren
2013-07-15 18:40 ` [PATCH V2 3/5] of: introduce of_parse_phandle_with_fixed_args Stephen Warren
2013-07-15 18:59   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-07-15 23:06     ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-15 18:40 ` [PATCH V2 4/5] gpio: implement gpio-ranges binding document fix Stephen Warren
2013-07-15 18:40 ` [PATCH V2 5/5] ARM: remove #gpio-ranges-cells property Stephen Warren
2013-07-15 19:34   ` Rob Herring
2013-07-15 23:02     ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-07-16 23:30       ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-17  1:50         ` Rob Herring
2013-07-17  2:58           ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-18  1:35   ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-07-22 22:31 ` [PATCH V2 1/5] gpio: clean up gpio-ranges documentation Linus Walleij
2013-07-23 16:14   ` Stephen Warren

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