linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: pinctrl-zynq: Add warning for not to use 'io-standard'

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Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 01:37:33 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Cc:     Sai Krishna Potthuri <lakshmi.sai.krishna.potthuri@...inx.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        git <git@...inx.com>, saikrishna12468@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: pinctrl-zynq: Add warning for not to use 'io-standard'

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 8:00 AM Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com> wrote:

> Linus: would be good to know how long we should keep the support for
> this deprecated dt property.

We use the "noone hears the tree fall in an empty forest"-metric.
If no user suffers, we can drop it. Determining that requires some
kind of reasoning about when that happens, and then the maintainer
of the driver decides.

Yours,
Linus Walleij