linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] DT: i2c: Update vendor prefix for 24c00

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jan 2016 09:55:54 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:	Akshay Bhat <akshay.bhat@...esys.com>, ktsai@...ellamicro.com,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	ijc+devicetree <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	justin.waters@...esys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DT: i2c: Update vendor prefix for 24c00

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:22:33PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 04:57:48PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Akshay Bhat <akshay.bhat@...esys.com> wrote:
> >> > "at" is not a valid vendor prefix, correcting the same to "atmel"
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'm afraid you can't just do this change alone as it's used in some
> >> DTS. Though you may deprecated it along with update of current users.
> >
> > Well, in Linux, I2C core currently strips the vendor anyhow. This will
> > probably be changed somewhen (tm), but for now, the impact for Linux
> > should be extremly close to 0.
> 
> Okay, no objections to the original patch then.

Heh, I just go reminded that eeproms already have a seperate binding
description (Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt).

I will update the eeprom bindings and remove the entries from trivial
devices.


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