Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] Documentation: DT: vdma: Rename vdma-chan prefix to dma-chan

[SÃren Brinkmann]

On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 22:13:59 +0000, Koul, Vinod wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 23:16 +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > On 04/06/2016 06:25 PM, Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao wrote:
> > > a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.txt
> > > > > +++
> > > > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.txt
> > > > > @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ Optional properties:
> > > > >  	{3}, flush s2mm channel
> > > > > 
> > > > >  Required child node properties:
> > > > > -- compatible: It should be either "xlnx,axi-vdma-mm2s-channel"
> > > > > or
> > > > > -	"xlnx,axi-vdma-s2mm-channel".
> > > > > +- compatible: It should be either "xlnx,axi-dma-mm2s-channel"
> > > > > or
> > > > > +	"xlnx,axi-dma-s2mm-channel".
> > > > 
> > > > This change is not backwards compatible and breaks every user of
> > > > the current
> > > > binding.
> > > 
> > > This commit http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/slave-
> > > dma.git/commit/?h=next&id=8e66e7d682b04f7141f8ae666908c8dcd7fc0bfa 
> > > Renames xilinx_vdma_ prefix to xilinx_dma which includes renaming of
> > > the above properties.
> 
> That patch changes driver from vdma to dma. It does not change property
> name!

It does. Unfortunately there are no line numbers on that website, hence here an excerpt
from the commit you mention:
@@ -1220,26 +1220,26 @@ static int xilinx_vdma_chan_probe(struct xilinx_vdma_device *xdev,
 	if (!has_dre)
 		xdev->common.copy_align = fls(width - 1);
 
-	if (of_device_is_compatible(node, "xlnx,axi-vdma-mm2s-channel")) {
+	if (of_device_is_compatible(node, "xlnx,axi-dma-mm2s-channel")) {
 		chan->direction = DMA_MEM_TO_DEV;
 		chan->id = 0;

	SÃren