From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, grant.likely@linaro.org,
robh+dt@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] of/irq: lookup 'interrupts-extended' property first
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:15:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140806201500.GP3711@ld-irv-0074> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407355347-30286-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 01:02:27PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> In case the Device Tree blob passed by the boot agent supplies both an
> 'interrupts-extended' and an 'interrupts' property in order to allow for
> older kernels to be usable, prefer the new-style 'interrupts-extended'
> property which conveys a lot more information.
>
> This allows us to have bootloaders willingly maintaining backwards
> compatibility with older kernels without entirely deprecating the
> 'interrupts' property.
>
> Update the bindings documentation to describe a situation where both the
> 'interrupts-extended' and the 'interrupts' property are present, and
> which one takes precedence over the other.
>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Might we add this?
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+
Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-06 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-06 20:02 Florian Fainelli
2014-08-06 20:15 ` Brian Norris [this message]
2014-08-15 12:51 ` Grant Likely
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