On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:07:42 +0100, Thierry Reding <thierry.red...@avionic-design.de> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:28:38AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > > On 11/09/2012 10:10 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:04:56AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > > > > > >> However just FYI, it should not be necessary for correctness; The > > >> DT matching order is supposed to be driven purely by the order of > > >> the compatible values in the DT now, and not affected by the > > >> order of values in the table. (This wasn't always the case, but > > >> was a bug that was fixed IIRC by Thierry Reding). > > > > > > I guess the driver is being used backported in older kernels which > > > don't have that fix? > > > > That sounds likely. Laxman, it'd be a good idea to track down the fix > > to the DT matching code and backport it, so that hard-to debug issues > > aren't caused by the lack of that patch! > > Unfortunately the patch that was supposed to fixed this caused a > regression and was therefore reverted. Rob (Cc'ed) said there was a > patch to fix it properly and was supposed to go into 3.6 but it seems > that never happened. Rob, what's the status on this? > > The revert is here: bc51b0c22cebf5c311a6f1895fcca9f78efd0478
Rob, ping on this. I think we talked about it on IRC, but I cannot remember what was said.... I must be getting old. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
