Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: backlight: fix vendor prefix for ArcticSand arcxcnn driver bindings

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 4:56 AM Daniel Thompson
<daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 07:44:06AM -0400, Brian Dodge wrote:
> > I would like to deprecate the old prefix in the future after communicating
> > with all chip customers, which is why the old prefix is not documented in
> > the new bindings.
>
> Deprecation is fine (by me at least) it's just that I'm not sure that
> removing the documentation for the deprecated bindings is the right way
> to do it. What is the prior art here?

Kind of depends on how widely used something is and we've done both
ways generally. If there are not any upstream dts files, removal is
fine IMO.

With schema, there's a 'deprecated' keyword coming in draft8. So we'll
have a defined way to keep things documented as needed and also warn
about their use.

Rob



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