linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][resend] of: Add vendor 2nd prefix for Asahi Kasei Corp

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:27:43 +0100
From:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...il.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
	Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	Magnus <magnus.damm@...il.com>, Simon <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][resend] of: Add vendor 2nd prefix for Asahi Kasei Corp

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@....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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