On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well, Daniel Drake spoke up for OLPC. Does that count? > > We don't know they used DT on Marvell MMP2/MMP3. So they don't have DTS file > in kernel, we could use both old name & new name in driver.
You are listed as one of the MMP maintainers in the MAINTAINERS file and I have sent you several patches in the few 3 weeks which make OLPC's usage of MMP + DT pretty obvious. As a maintainer I believe you are supposed to review the patches too. hint hint ;) My request to avoid breaking compatibility actually comes as a two-prong request. I would prefer to see these compatible properties stay the same as it seems like changing them has little purpose/benefit - and there *will* become a later point where changing them causes major breakage. At the same time I see that there have been recent efforts to remove MMP2 platform code and make it entirely DT-driven, which could also generate some compatibility concerns. However, such movements are much appreciated and I think they will become increasingly necessary as we bring up the devices on the MMP3 SoC to a fuller extent, so please continue :) I would not want to discourage you from breaking compatibility when *that* type of work needs to be done. So: breaking compatibility is actually OK from my standpoint, but only for now (while we stabilise), and I would advise/appreciate that it only be done in cases where there is a clear purpose and benefit. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
