Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] xen/arm: Add support for DTBs with strange names of Hip04 GICv2

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 14:19 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Frediano,
> 
> On 20/02/15 09:56, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > This name can appear in some Linux kernel repos. Not very fortunate,
> > but to avoid others spending an hour to spot that few characters
> > difference it worth to work around it.
> 
> As Zoltan said on a previous mail [1], this is only used on your
> internal kernel.
> 
> Furthermore, as the bindings is not official, nothing prevent someone to
> re-use the bindings for another purpose (such as GICv3 on hisilicon).
> 
> Xen upstream aims to support only official bindings for a this reason.
> So I don't think we should take this patch.

Neither do I. Nacked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>.

If/when these bindings are described in the official bindings document
then please let us know.

Ian.


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