Re: [RFC V1] mfd: da9063: Add support for production silicon variant code

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Feb 17 2014 - 18:39:58 EST


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:18:43PM +0000, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote:

> Some registers in the new variant make backwards compatibility easy,
> however attempting to combine the two register maps in other components
> makes the driver a mess.

OK, that makes sense - if the changes really are substantial then
dropping the old revisions can be reasonable.

> I realise that the Linux community will have different aims however and
> I would like to support those as much as I can.

It's not just the community here - it's just a general thing with users,
the same issues face people using out of tree drivers (though
communication with the developers is often weaker there).

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