Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:41:57 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/11] iio: adc: qcom-spmi-adc5: remove support for ADC7 compatible string | From | Jishnu Prakash <> |
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Hi Jonathan,
On 7/8/2023 8:30 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 12:58:29 +0530 > Jishnu Prakash <quic_jprakash@quicinc.com> wrote: > >> Now that usage of "ADC7" name has been replaced with usage of "ADC5 >> Gen2" name everywhere, remove the "qcom,spmi-adc7" compatible string. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jishnu Prakash <quic_jprakash@quicinc.com> > Nope. Unless all your dts files are distributed with the kernel, dropping > this breaks anyone who upgrades the kernel against an older firmware... > > So even after the rename, you need to keep the deprecated naming around for > the binding side of things. > > Jonathan > >> ---
Yes, I'll drop this patch, will just mark the older name as deprecated.
Thanks,
Jishnu
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