Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:24:24 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH][resend] of: Add vendor 2nd prefix for Asahi Kasei Corp | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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Hi Mark,
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)
Still missing is an update for checkpatch to warn when a deprecated vendor prefix is used.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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