linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number.

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Date:	Wed, 25 May 2016 19:03:21 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus
 number.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:49:32PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:34:50PM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:

> > It is in the kernel, it is appropriate to document it.

> Things get undocumented all the time when we deprecate them.

There's also the X.org approach of breaking documented behaviour and
seeing if anyone complains before you deprecate :)

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