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Itai Katz authored
Up until now if the object version expected by a driver (in the API header file) did not match the actual object version in the MC hardware the bus driver refused to bind the object to the driver or printed out WARN_ON dumps. This patch removes those checks, and the responsibility of object version checking should now be done in the object drivers themselves. If the actual version discovered is not supported, the driver's probe function should fail. Drivers should use version checks to support new features and provide backwards compatibility if at all possible. This patch also removes the checks that caused bus driver probing to fail if the overall MC version discovered did not match the firmware version from the API header...this was too strict. The overall MC version is informational like a release number, and continues to be printed in the boot log. Signed-off-by:
Itai Katz <itai.katz@nxp.com> (Stuart: reworded commit log) Signed-off-by:
Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@nxp.com> Acked-by:
German Rivera <german.rivera@nxp.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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