linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dt-bindings: display: ssd1307fb: Deprecate "-i2c" compatible strings

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Message-ID: <Ylga7jYPaAav05gg@robh.at.kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:00:30 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dt-bindings: display: ssd1307fb: Deprecate "-i2c"
 compatible strings

On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:23:54 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The current compatible strings for SSD130x I2C controllers contain both an
> "fb" and "-i2c" suffixes. It seems to indicate that are for a fbdev driver
> and also that are for devices that can be accessed over an I2C bus.
> 
> But a DT is supposed to describe the hardware and not Linux implementation
> details. So let's deprecate those compatible strings and add new ones that
> only contain the vendor and device name, without any of these suffixes.
> 
> These will just describe the device and can be matched by both I2C and SPI
> DRM drivers. The required properties should still be enforced for old ones.
> 
> While being there, just drop the "sinowealth,sh1106-i2c" compatible string
> since that was never present in a released Linux version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
> ---
> 
> (no changes since v3)
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Drop the "sinowealth,sh1106-i2c", wasn't in a released version (Chen-Yu Tsai)
> - Continue enforcing required properties for deprecated strings (Maxime Ripard)
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop the -i2c suffixes from the compatible strings too (Geert Uytterhoeven)
> 
>  .../bindings/display/solomon,ssd1307fb.yaml   | 44 +++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>