Re: [RFC][PATCH v2] documentation/devicetree: Move DT bindigns fromgpio to watchdog

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:38:56AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/28/2013 12:22 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 03:41:42PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 08/27/2013 05:10 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> >>> I accidently put the devicetree bindings for the MEN A21 watchdog driver in
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio instead of
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog, this patch addresses this error.
> >>
> >>>  Changes to v1:
> >>>  - Use named gpios, as suggested by Stephen Warren
> >>
> >> The move and the change to the binding should probably be separate
> >> patches since they're logically separate things. I didn't intend you to
> >> update the rename patch to fix the binding issue I pointed out.
> >>
> >
> > Oops. Looks like I've misunderstood you there. I'll re-send the rename patch
> > then.
> >
> >> Is the driver updated for this binding change? Are there DTs in released
> >> kernels that won't work now, or is the driver very new; there may be a
> >> need for the driver to support the old binding and the binding doc to
> >> document the old gpios property, but mark it deprecated.
> >
> > The driver is not yet updated, this is why I've sent it as an RFC. Are the
> > bindings acceptable this way? If yes I'll update the driver and re-send the
> > bindings with the driver as a new patch series.
>
> Well, XXX says:
>
> > GPIO properties should be named "[<name>-]gpios"
>
> whereas in this patch, some of the renamed properties were "-gpio"
> rather than "-gpios". Aside from that, the new binding looks reasonable.
>
> However, I see that the existing binding will be released as part of
> v3.11. That implies that we should continue to support the old binding
> for compatibility. As such, I'm not convinced whether it's worth
> changing this binding now.

Well I'm be perfectly happy with not changing the bindings and therefore not
changing the driver. If this O.K. for you.

Should I resend my 1st patch, or is it O.K. to pick up the old one?

Johannes
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