Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:27:43 +0100 | From | Mark Rutland <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][resend] of: Add vendor 2nd prefix for Asahi Kasei Corp |
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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.
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