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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/5] dt-bindings: display: ssd1307fb: Deprecate "-i2c" compatible strings
On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:23:54 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas 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. The required properties should still be enforced for old ones.
>
> While being there, just drop the "sinowealth,sh1106-i2c" compatible string
> since that was never present in a released Linux version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> ---
>
> (no changes since v3)
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Drop the "sinowealth,sh1106-i2c", wasn't in a released version (Chen-Yu Tsai)
> - Continue enforcing required properties for deprecated strings (Maxime Ripard)
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop the -i2c suffixes from the compatible strings too (Geert Uytterhoeven)
>
> .../bindings/display/solomon,ssd1307fb.yaml | 44 +++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

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