HI,

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:19:59AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:42:00AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > On 10/21/2013 10:13 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/ti_am335x_tsc.c 
> > > > b/drivers/input/touchscreen/ti_am335x_tsc.c
> > > > index e1c5300..b61df9d 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/ti_am335x_tsc.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/ti_am335x_tsc.c
> > > > @@ -348,9 +348,16 @@ static int titsc_parse_dt(struct platform_device 
> > > > *pdev,
> > > >         if (err < 0)
> > > >                 return err;
> > > >  
> > > > -       err = of_property_read_u32(node, "ti,coordiante-readouts",
> > > > +       /*
> > > > +        * try with new binding first. If it fails, still try with
> > > > +        * bogus, miss-spelled version.
> > > > +        */
> > > > +       err = of_property_read_u32(node, "ti,coordinate-readouts",
> > > >                         &ts_dev->coordinate_readouts);
> > > >         if (err < 0)
> > > > +               err = of_property_read_u32(node, 
> > > > "ti,coordiante-readouts",
> > > > +                               &ts_dev->coordinate_readouts);
> > > > +       if (err < 0)
> > > >                 return err;
> > > 
> > > Thanks, very good. Do we keep this fallback for ever or just for a year
> > > or two?
> > 
> > That's for DT maintainers to decide but considering DT is an ABI, I
> > guess we need to keep for 30 years or so :-p
> 
> We keep it as long as we have to. If no-one's relying on the typo by the
> next merge window, I see no reason we'd have to keep support for the

and how could you know that ? considering it's an ABI, how could you
ever know that ?

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balbi

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