Re: [PATCH v2] arm: tegra124: remove commas from unit addresses

[Marcel Ziswiler]

On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 19:11 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:45:55AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > 
> > On 06/20/2016 10:40 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:50:26AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On 06/18/2016 07:04 PM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Remove commas from unit addresses as suggested by Rob Herring
> > > > > upon me
> > > > > posting initial Apalis TK1 support:
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.tegra/26608
> > > > Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > I'm confused now. I posted almost exactly the same patch a while
> > > ago and
> > > we agreed that we couldn't do this because the node names were to
> > > be
> > > considered part of the ABI.
> > > 
> > > Is it or is it not?
> > The particular case where it matters is the GPU node, which U-Boot
> > manipulates. This revised patch version no longer renames the GPU
> > node and
> > so in practice avoids any issues that I'm aware of.
> > 
> > If there's a more general rule that node names are part of the ABI,
> > then
> > indeed we shouldn't take this patch.
> I'm somewhat uncomfortable with this notion. Just because we don't
> know
> of any other cases doesn't mean there aren't any. My understanding is
> that it's fairly common to look up device tree nodes by name, however
> brittle that may be.
> 
> There's also the matter of consistency to consider here. I suspect
> that
> if we make this change somebody will notice the odd one out and send
> patches to "fix it up". So if we get confirmation about this change
> being okay, I'd request that a comment be added to the GPU node as to
> why it is not converted.

Sure, let me add such a comment in a v3 that it is crystal clear why we
did so.

> Thierry


Thanks Thierry.

Cheers

Marcel