Re: [PATCH] iio: light: ltrf216a: Drop undocumented ltr,ltrf216a compatible string

["Shreeya Patel" <shreeya.patel@collabora.com>]

On Friday, July 05, 2024 20:22 IST, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:

> On 7/5/24 12:42 PM, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> > On Friday, July 05, 2024 15:20 IST, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> The "ltr,ltrf216a" compatible string is not documented in DT binding
> >> document, remove it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> >> ---
> >> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>
> >> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
> >> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>
> >> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
> >> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> >> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> >> Cc: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel@collabora.com>
> >> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> >> Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/iio/light/ltrf216a.c | 1 -
> >>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/ltrf216a.c b/drivers/iio/light/ltrf216a.c
> >> index 68dc48420a886..78fc910fcb18c 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/iio/light/ltrf216a.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/iio/light/ltrf216a.c
> >> @@ -528,7 +528,6 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, ltrf216a_id);
> >>   
> >>   static const struct of_device_id ltrf216a_of_match[] = {
> >>   	{ .compatible = "liteon,ltrf216a" },
> >> -	{ .compatible = "ltr,ltrf216a" },
> >>   	{}
> > 
> > This compatible string with a different vendor prefix was added for a specific reason.
> > Please see the commit message of the following patch :-
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220511094024.175994-2-shreeya.patel@collabora.com/
> > 
> > We were very well aware that not documenting this was going to generate a warning so
> > we tried to fix that with a deprecated tag but it was NAKd by Rob. What we understood
> > from his last message was that it wasn't necessary to fix the DT warning.
> 
>  From what I read in the aforementioned discussion thread, it seems Rob 
> was very much opposed to this compatible string, so this shouldn't have 
> gone in in the first place.
> 
> But it did ... so the question is, what now ?

There were multiple versions sent for adding LTRF216A light sensor driver
and this compatible string wasn't something that was accepted by mistake.
Most of the versions of the patch series made it very clear that it generates a warning
which you can check here :-
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220731173446.7400bfa8@jic23-huawei/T/#me55be502302d70424a85368c2645c89f860b7b40

I would just go with whatever Jonathan decides to do here :)

Thanks,
Shreeya Patel