W dniu 28.10.2015 o 18:48, Alexandre Belloni pisze: > On 28/10/2015 at 12:31:43 +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote : >> The s2mps13 clock driver added new name and compatible... which was >> probably totally unneeded (I missed that during review). We don't have >> to make this as a rule... >> >> Since we do not have any data about future workarounds and the >> differences then just follow Ockham's razor - use the same name and >> compatible. >> > > So you don't care about DT backward compatibility because when a > workaround will be needed for one of the IPs, then you will have to > update the old dtb to use it.
Nope, DTB does not contain the name for RTC driver (s2mps15-rtc). It will be exactly the same. > > Unless you are sure that the IP is the same, doing > > { "s2mps15-rtc", S2MPS14X }, > > is probably the best way to handle that. Note that I personally don't > care about the DT ABI, I'm just pointing out what may happen ;) In case of RTC driver there is no chance of DT ABI issues here. The clock driver is different because it contain a compatible. Best regards, Krzysztof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-clk" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html