On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 07:12:05PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > On 03/23/2014 11:19 AM, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:37:52 +0100 >> Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Required properties; >>>> - - compatible: must be "nxp,tda998x" >>>> + - compatible: may be "nxp,tda9989", "nxp,tda19988" or "nxp,tda19989" >>> >>> There is a "DT is ABI" policy and although there is no mainline Linux >>> user of current compatible, the correct way would be to deprecate >>> "nxp,tda998x" and introduce new compatibles. >> >> Pratically, what is this way? > > Currently, there is no effective way to deprecate a binding or > compatible. You just add the one(s) that are more sensible and > you mark the old one as DEPRECATED by simply writing it in the > binding doc. > > The driver should support the old binding at least for a while. It doesn't need to - it's only been in development trees so far, and never been in a mainline full release. Until it does, the binding does not become stable. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly improving, and getting towards what was expected from it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
