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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
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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 <mark.rutland@arm.com> 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.