Re: [PATCH] spi: tegra: sequence compatible strings as per preference

[Stephen Warren]

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!
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