Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 012/135] ASoC: cs42l56: Fix reset GPIO name in example DT binding
From: Andrew F. Davis
Date: Fri Dec 08 2017 - 12:03:54 EST
On 12/08/2017 05:36 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:03:01PM +0000, alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 05:25:02PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> We shouldn't be getting into adding completely new DT properties in
>>> stable backports like this. Old kernels have the bindings they have.
>
>> I thought that this one just adjust the example to match the code, and
>> doesn't actually change anything?
>
> No, there's a corresponding code change - the changelog is badly written.
>
Not this patch, this one was just the example was wrong, the driver
looks for, and always did look for, the "cirrus,gpio-nreset".
Only the tlv* drivers looked for the other property and needed code
changing, and those are separate patches.