Re: [PATCH v2 12/16] dt-bindings/interrupt-controller: update Marvell ICU bindings

From: Thomas Petazzoni
Date: Tue Jun 05 2018 - 16:35:36 EST


Hello,

On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:29:02 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:40:38AM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > Change the documentation to reflect the new bindings used for Marvell
> > ICU. This involves describing each interrupt group as a subnode of the
> > ICU node. Each of them having their own compatible.
>
> Need to explain why you need to do this and why breaking backwards
> compatibility is okay.

It does not break backward compatibility. The driver changes keep
support for the previous DT binding where there was a single node with
no subnodes.

The DT binding documentation still documents the legacy binding,
because it is still supported, and still works.

Best regards,

Thomas
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