Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] dt-bindings: display: ssd1307fb: Deprecate "-i2c" compatible strings

Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-04-12T09:00:17Z

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 11:12 PM Javier Martinez Canillas
<javierm@redhat.com> wrote:
> The current compatible strings for SSD130x I2C controllers contain both an
> "fb" and "-i2c" suffixes. It seems to indicate that are for a fbdev driver
> and also that are for devices that can be accessed over an I2C bus.
>
> But a DT is supposed to describe the hardware and not Linux implementation
> details. So let's deprecate those compatible strings and add new ones that
> only contain the vendor and device name, without any of these suffixes.
>
> These will just describe the device and can be matched by both I2C and SPI
> DRM drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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