Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the usb tree

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Tue Aug 27 2013 - 12:31:07 EST


On 08/27/2013 06:12 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> No. Read that email again. What Benoit said was that if Felipe was fine
> with the change _HE_ would take it. Huge difference, and one that would have
> avoided this situation.

Yes, I'm sorry.

> The only way to solve these things in the future is to make the driver handle
> both the new and the old binding. Bindings are not supposed to change in
> incompatible ways any more, unless for special circumstances and/or when the
> old binding was completely broken.
The old bindings were completly broken.

> -Olof

Sebastian
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/