On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:50 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > While the "device_type" property is still used and supported, it is > deprecated so it should be removed from examples in the documentation. > There is no value in encouraging developers to keep using that > property, so just quietly disappear it from examples, but leave its > explanation in the spec. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > according to the spec, that property is still marginally acceptable > for memory and cpu nodes, but it really has no place being used for > any other types of nodes. It's not just acceptable, but it is still required. It is also required for PCI bridges. I'm not sure if Linux and other client programs still have dependencies on device_type, but we'd need to remove those first. Then make it optional in the spec, remove from dts files (some time later to avoid breaking new dtb with old kernel), and then finally remove from the spec. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-spec" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
