Re: [PATCH 01/29] usb: dwc3: Discard synopsys,dwc3 compatibility string

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-10-20T12:28:11Z

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 03:15:06PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM Serge Semin
> <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru> wrote:
> >
> > Syonpsys IP cores are supposed to be defined with "snps" vendor-prefix.
> > Discard a DW USB3 compatible string with the deprecated prefix seeing
> > one isn't used by any dts file anymore.
>
> I'm afraid it's no go.
> It's an ABI from the moment when the driver started supporting this
> compatible string.

Exactly.

Please mark the compatible as deprecated in bindings, correct the DTSes
and optionally after one or two years (or any time later) remove the
support for deprecated bindings.

Best regards,
Krzysztof