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Date:   Sat, 19 Dec 2020 09:07:13 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@...iatek.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Ungerer <gerg@...nel.org>,
        Rene van Dorst <opensource@...rst.com>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net: dsa: mt7530: rename MT7621 compatible



On 12/19/2020 8:26 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c
>> @@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ static const struct mt753x_info mt753x_table[] = {
>>  };
>>  
>>  static const struct of_device_id mt7530_of_match[] = {
>> -	{ .compatible = "mediatek,mt7621", .data = &mt753x_table[ID_MT7621], },
>> +	{ .compatible = "mediatek,mt7621-gsw", .data = &mt753x_table[ID_MT7621], },
>>  	{ .compatible = "mediatek,mt7530", .data = &mt753x_table[ID_MT7530], },
>>  	{ .compatible = "mediatek,mt7531", .data = &mt753x_table[ID_MT7531], },
>>  	{ /* sentinel */ },
> 
> This will break backwards compatibility with existing DT blobs. You
> need to keep the old "mediatek,mt7621", but please add a comment that
> it is deprecated.

Besides, adding -gsw would make it inconsistent with the existing
matching compatible strings. While it's not ideal to have the same
top-level SoC compatible and having another sub-node within that SoC's
DTS have the same compatible, given this would be break backwards
compatibility, cannot you stay with what is defined today?
-- 
Florian