Dear Eric Nelson,
In message 4F515BF1.9030101@boundarydevices.com you wrote:
I think new code is still being written for 2.6.38, so it may be obsolete, but not necessarily old.
It definitely is old - Linux mainline has seen 50240 commits since v2.6.38, with 3243564 lines added and 2329522 removed.
You probably do not want to consider it obsolete yet... I do. YMMV.
These small patches will be a big help to those of us who need to support both though, and it's not yet clear how long the kernel transition will take.
The problem is that these changes will cause additional maintenance efforts in the future. I think we have reached a point in time where new boards that get added should only add support for DT baed configurations, and get rid of this MACH_ID crap. Just look at the number of recent board breakages and need of fixes just because IDs get dropped from the mach_id database.
I feel efforts would be better invested if they were directed in improving current mainline kernel code.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk