Re: [PATCH v3 09/13] dt/bindings: ti,edma: Remove redundant properties from documentation

[Sekhar Nori]

On Monday 19 May 2014 01:45 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> + DT maintainers
> 
> On Friday 16 May 2014 05:47 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>> From CCCFG register of eDMA3 we can get all the needed information for the
>> driver about the IP:
>> Number of channels: NUM_DMACH
>> Number of regions: NUM_REGN
>> Number of slots (PaRAM sets): NUM_PAENTRY
>> Number of TC/EQ: NUM_EVQUE
>>
>> The ti,edma-regions; ti,edma-slots and dma-channels in DT are
>> redundant since the very same information can be obtained from the HW.
>> The mentioned properties are deprecated.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx>
> 
> DT maintainers,
> 
> Can I get an ack on deprecation of these bindings? We are using hardware
> to detect the same properties so it should not cause any backward
> compatibility issue when moving to newer kernels while keeping the same DTB.
> 
> Link to last mail on this topic as part of v2 thread:
> 
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1405.1/05152.html

Ping. Sorry for being a pest, but this ack is the only thing holding
this series up. I would hate this series to miss the v3.16 deadline.

Thanks,
Sekhar

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