I2C not working upon 2.6.24 to 2.6.28 kernel upgrade

[Johns Daniel]

We have had this device tree (a section shown below) working for a long time:
	soc8343 at e0000000 {
		#address-cells = <1>;
		#size-cells = <1>;
		#interrupt-cells = <2>;
		device_type = "soc";
		ranges = <00000000 e0000000 00100000>;
		reg = <e0000000 00000200>;
		bus-frequency = <0>;

		i2c at 3000 {
			device_type = "i2c";
			compatible = "fsl-i2c";
			reg = <3000 100>;
			interrupts = <e 8>;
			interrupt-parent = <700>;
			dfsrr;
		};
...
}

With linux-2.6.24, it worked with this struct defined in the
board-specific file:
          static struct of_device_id __initdata of_bus_ids[] = {
          	{ .compatible = "fsl,pq2pro-localbus", },
          	{},
          };

With linux-2.6.28, it needs the following struct in the board-specific
file for I2C to work:
          static struct of_device_id __initdata of_bus_ids[] = {
          	{ .type = "soc", },
          	{ .name = "localbus", },
          	{},
          };

Is this easily explained?

What is the right way to do this now? Ideally, I would like to keep
the device tree unchanged since I need for it to work with older
versions of the kernel!

-- Johns