On Friday 23 August 2013 at 16:24:21, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:56:17AM +0100, Lars Poeschel wrote: > > From: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The device tree property should be more descriptive. > > microchip seems more reasonable than mcp. As there are no > > in tree users of this property, so the rename can still be > > done without pain. > > Are there definitely no users? I see there are no dts with a > "mcp,mcp23***" compatible string, but are there any boards already out > there with this hardware that someone might be using and a currently > release kernel supports? What do you mean by "release"? The device tree support for the gpio- mcp23s08 driver and thus the "mcp" string came in with v3.9. This is stable but not longterm. > With the bcm/broadcom => brcm change, we marked the old vendor prefix as > deprecated (but left the support code). > > If we can 100% guarantee no-one's using the compatible string, I'm happy > to change it. Otherwise we just have to mark the old string as > deprecated. I am the developer of the device tree support for that driver and I am not aware of any user, but surely I can not guarantee it. I never imagined how hard it would be. ;-) I presented both variants: 1.) simply add mcp to vendor-prefixes.txt 2.) change the driver to microchip and add microchip to vendor-prefixes.txt May one of the maintainers decide which one to take or even take none of the patches. Or do you need a third variant with both strings in the driver and microchip in vendor-prefixes? Lars -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
