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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] of/irq: lookup 'interrupts-extended' property first
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 01:02:27PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> In case the Device Tree blob passed by the boot agent supplies both an
> 'interrupts-extended' and an 'interrupts' property in order to allow for
> older kernels to be usable, prefer the new-style 'interrupts-extended'
> property which conveys a lot more information.
>
> This allows us to have bootloaders willingly maintaining backwards
> compatibility with older kernels without entirely deprecating the
> 'interrupts' property.
>
> Update the bindings documentation to describe a situation where both the
> 'interrupts-extended' and the 'interrupts' property are present, and
> which one takes precedence over the other.
>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Might we add this?

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+

Brian


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