From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752271AbaCWKSq (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Mar 2014 06:18:46 -0400 Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.4]:59566 "EHLO smtp4-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751288AbaCWKSo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Mar 2014 06:18:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:19:03 +0100 From: Jean-Francois Moine To: Sebastian Hesselbarth Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i2c: tda998x: Change the compatible strings Message-ID: <20140323111903.51c73c82@armhf> In-Reply-To: <532C40B0.3000805@gmail.com> References: <20140321115541.01cbbb06@armhf> <532C40B0.3000805@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:37:52 +0100 Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > > Required properties; > > - - compatible: must be "nxp,tda998x" > > + - compatible: may be "nxp,tda9989", "nxp,tda19988" or "nxp,tda19989" > > There is a "DT is ABI" policy and although there is no mainline Linux > user of current compatible, the correct way would be to deprecate > "nxp,tda998x" and introduce new compatibles. Pratically, what is this way? -- Ken ar c'hentañ | ** Breizh ha Linux atav! ** Jef | http://moinejf.free.fr/