Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] dtb: change binding name to match with newer firmware DT

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:33:34 +0100

On Friday 27 February 2015 12:08:29 Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm/apm-storm.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm/apm-storm.dtsi
> index f1ad9c2..a857794 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm/apm-storm.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm/apm-storm.dtsi
> @@ -622,7 +622,7 @@
>                 };
>  
>                 sgenet0: ethernet@1f210000 {
> -                       compatible = "apm,xgene-enet";
> +                       compatible = "apm,xgene1-sgenet";
>                         status = "disabled";
>                         reg = <0x0 0x1f210000 0x0 0xd100>,
>                               <0x0 0x1f200000 0x0 0Xc300>,
> 

This will break booting the new dtb on older kernels, right?

You should normally list the most generic model in addition to the
specific one.

	Arnd