linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: dt-bindings: Drop broken irondevice,sma1303 binding

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Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2023 15:00:55 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kiseok Jo <kiseok.jo@...ndevice.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: dt-bindings: Drop broken irondevice,sma1303 binding

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> I tried. I started writing patch to fix few things in this binding and
> then noticed that it is entirely empty and documents nothing.

I really don't see an empty binding as a major problem in and of itself,
we can always add properties later.  Again, I can't tell what the
problems you're seeing are.

> The trouble is that soon you will send it to Linus and then it becomes
> the ABI even though no one ever approved or reviewed the actual ABI.

So send a patch to delete the property parsing code then, like I say
removing the entire driver is very much an overraction.  The properties
are all optional in the code.

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