From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Rutland Subject: Re: [PATCH][resend] of: Add vendor 2nd prefix for Asahi Kasei Corp Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:27:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20140922132743.GM3290@leverpostej> References: <20140611165410.GK5099@sirena.org.uk> <20140611170233.GL5099@sirena.org.uk> <5398A53D.3020706@wwwdotorg.org> <20140611190444.GN5099@sirena.org.uk> <5398AB07.4040304@wwwdotorg.org> <87sinbdk44.wl%kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> <878ulzx6hr.wl%kuninori.morimoto.gx@gmail.com> <20140922130026.GK3290@leverpostej> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-sh-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Kuninori Morimoto , Olof Johansson , Stephen Warren , Rob Herring , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Mark Brown , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , ALSA Development Mailing List , Linux-sh list , Magnus , Simon , "grant.likely@linaro.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Mark, Hi Geert, > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Mark Rutland wrote: > > Given all that, I think we should get rid of the "ak" prefix entirely, > > fix up the seaboard dts, and leave the legacy matching for "ak,ak8975" > > up to the i2c framework. However, that would imply deleting from > > vendor-prefixes.txt (if we want people to be warned on use of "ak"), and > > that's not a good precedent to set. > > Instead of deleting, we can deprecate, like was done for powervr: > > powervr PowerVR (deprecated, use img) Ah. I tried to see if we had any deprecated bindings, but I somehow failed to search correctly and missed powervr. > Still missing is an update for checkpatch to warn when a deprecated > vendor prefix is used. Marking it deprecated and warning with checkpatch is certainly preferable. Mark.