removing get_immrbase()??

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Apr 23 07:39:46 EST 2009


On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>> I disagree.  If you update your kernel you should update your device
>> tree (thus we have .dts in the kernel tree and not somewhere else).
>
> Is this a new policy?  I was under the impression that supporting  
> older
> device trees, if not too inconvenient, is desirable.  I've nack'd
> patches before that broke backwards compatibility unnecessarily.

The specific issue I'm talking about is the addition of new nodes that  
might break old device trees.  I have no desire to try and say that I  
can't add new nodes and code related to them just because old device  
tree's didn't have them.

- k



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