linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: watchdog: qcom-wdt: Remove deprecated compatible

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Date:   Thu, 6 Feb 2020 19:15:32 +0000
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@...il.com>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: watchdog: qcom-wdt: Remove deprecated
 compatible

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 08:09:58AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 04:21:02PM +0100, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> > "qcom,kpss-wdt-msm8960"
> > "qcom,kpss-wdt-apq8064"
> > "qcom,kpss-wdt-ipq8064"
> > "qcom,kpss-wdt-ipq4019"
> > 
> > and deprectaed and not used in the driver code at all. Drop them and
> > fix the example.
> > 
> Rob may correct me, but I don't think you can just remove
> deprecated properties. It doesn't matter if the driver supports
> it or not; after all, DT property descriptions are supposed
> to be OS independent.

Right.

Also, there's a conversion of this to schema under review, so it will 
need to be refactored if not dropped.

Rob