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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 2/4] arm64: dts: correct vendor prefix hisi to hisilicon
Hi Arnd,

On 2021/1/27 6:23, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 1:46 PM Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> The vendor prefix of "Hisilicon Limited" is "hisilicon", it is clearly
>> stated in "vendor-prefixes.yaml".
>>
>> Fixes: 35ca8168133c ("arm64: dts: Add dts files for Hisilicon Hi3660 SoC")
>> Fixes: dd8c7b78c11b ("arm64: dts: Add devicetree for Hisilicon Hi3670 SoC")
>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
>> Cc: Chen Feng <puck.chen@hisilicon.com>
>> Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
>
> I see this change in the pull request I got, but I'm a bit worried about the
> incompatible binding change. Wouldn't the correct path forward be to
> list both the correct and the incorrect properties, both in the dts file
> and in the driver that interprets the properties?

Thanks for the comment!
The reset driver will look for "hisilicon" firstly and fall back to "hisi".
And the DTS is shipped with the driver together.
So I think there is no compatible issue here.
Please let me know if missed anything. Thanks!

Best Regards,
Wei

>
> The binding file in this case would need to list the old name as deprecated,
> though I'm not sure how that would work without causing a warning about
> the unknown vendor prefix.
>
> Arnd
> .
>

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