linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] regulator: rt5033: Change regulator names to lowercase

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:40:01 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Jakob Hauser <jahau@...ketmail.com>
Cc:     Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Beomho Seo <beomho.seo@...sung.com>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Stephan Gerhold <stephan@...hold.net>,
        Raymond Hackley <raymondhackley@...tonmail.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Axel Lin <axel.lin@...ics.com>,
        ChiYuan Huang <cy_huang@...htek.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        phone-devel@...r.kernel.org, ~postmarketos/upstreaming@...ts.sr.ht
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] regulator: rt5033: Change regulator names to
 lowercase

On 18/04/2023 23:24, Jakob Hauser wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On 16.04.23 20:32, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 16/04/2023 14:44, Jakob Hauser wrote:
>>> Lowercase is preferred for node names.
>>
>> This will break all existing users. In-tree and out-of-tree. Where is
>> the binding update?
> 
> In my reply to Rob's comments in v1 I was pointing out that this will 
> affect an existing driver. There was no reaction.
> 
> As far as I can see, there is no in-tree usage yet. Though I can't tell 
> about out-of-tree usage. Although if there is, adding the rt5033-charger 
> driver might already causes the need for changes.
> 
> Well, to stay on the safe side, I'll drop this patch in v3 and will 
> change the bindings (patch 9) back to uppercase.
> 

Your v1 binding patch did not explain that you document existing ABI, so
you got comments like for a new binding. This is not really new binding,
is it?

Best regards,
Krzysztof