Re: All device tree bindings need maintainer ack or just the 'interesting' ones.

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On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Mark Rutland wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:10:03AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-iio&m=137881790217809&w=2
> > > 
> > > Looks reasonable. My only comment is '-' is preferred over '_'.
> > 
> > Ah, in the node name you mean. Yes, I can change that.
> > 
> > The compatible string has to stay the same however, as it has to match
> > the device name which can't be changed due to possible userspace
> > breakage.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow why the compatible string must be identical to the
> name appearing to userspace.

It doesn't. It has to be identical to the device name, which I'm
guessing is used when populating sysfs.

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