removing get_immrbase()??

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Apr 23 23:54:55 EST 2009


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Ah... yes, you're right.  Never mind my previous reply.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
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