Re: [PATCH 01/17] ARM: dts: da850: fix interrupt numbers for clocksource

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Thu Jan 17 2019 - 09:32:56 EST


czw., 17 sty 2019 o 15:23 Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx> napisaÅ(a):
>
> On 11/01/19 10:51 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The timer interrupts specified in commit 3652e2741f42 ("ARM: dts:
> > da850: Add clocks") are wrong but since the current timer code
> > hard-codes them, the bug was never spotted.
> >
> > This patch must go into stable since, once we introduce a proper
> > clocksource driver, devices with buggy device tree will stop booting.
>
> Is this the case where someone uses device-tree from a stable tree and
> kernel from latest mainline?
>

Well, if someone wants to use an old device tree and a newer kernel,
then it'll be broken anyway. If we get it to stable then at least the
fixed device tree will work in the future. That was my reasoning.

Bart