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Date:   Sat, 4 Mar 2023 17:45:09 +0000
From:   Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org>
To:     Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
        Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@...cinc.com>,
        Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Krishna Manikandan <quic_mkrishn@...cinc.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: display/msm: dsi-controller-main: Fix
 deprecated compatible

On 04/03/2023 17:35, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> you'll see no error. However if you just do this
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi
>> index 0733c2f4f3798..829fbe05b5713 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi
>> @@ -1094,8 +1094,7 @@ mdp5_intf1_out: endpoint {
>>                          };
>>
>>                          dsi0: dsi@...8000 {
>> -                               compatible = "qcom,msm8916-dsi-ctrl",
>> -                                            "qcom,mdss-dsi-ctrl";
>> +                               compatible = "qcom,mdss-dsi-ctrl";
>>                                  reg = <0x01a98000 0x25c>;
>>                                  reg-names = "dsi_ctrl";
>>
>>
>> and run the same test you get
> Yes, correct. It's valid but it's deprecated, so the bindings are
> sane. Keep in mind there's an ABI-like aspect to this.
> 
> Konrad

The _driver_ will still accept "qcom,mdss-dsi-ctrl" which is ABI 
compliant but, I don't see why the yaml should.

If you declare a new .dts with only "qcom,mdss-dsi-ctrl", that should 
throw a yaml check error.

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bod