On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 07:05:18PM +0100, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >> AFAICT, it seems it makes sense to *definitively* settle for isil
> >> as the vendor prefix for Intersil, as Philip did in 7a6540ca856a:
> >> it's the NASDAQ symbol and this choice requires less changes than
> >> opting for isl.
> >>
> >> So, this patch changes compatible strings in .dts files to use isil
> >> where isl was found before, and modify drivers w/ compatible
> >> strings using isl to add one using isil. In those cases, a comment
> >> is made that the old compatible string is kept for backward
> >> compatibility (w/ out-fo-tree users of those drivers).
> >> Additionally, it leaves only isil as prefix in vendor-prefixes.txt.
> >> Those changes should prevent any new inclusion of isl compatible
> >> strings for Intersil devices due to copy-and-paste.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---
> >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt | 5 ++---
> >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/isl9305.txt | 4 ++--
> >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 3 +--
> >
> >> arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-cardhu.dtsi | 2 +-
> >> arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-parallella.dts | 2 +-
> >
> >> drivers/regulator/isl9305.c | 6
> >> ++++-- drivers/rtc/rtc-isl12022.c |
> >> 3 ++- drivers/rtc/rtc-isl12057.c |
> >> 3 ++- drivers/staging/iio/light/isl29028.c |
> >> 4 ++-- 9 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> > Please split the dts{i} changes out into a separate patch. The
> > different maintainers under drivers/ may want separate patches as
> > well.
>
> I will prepare that, and then let get_maintainer.pl decide who should
> be added to the CC: list. But before doing that work, I would like to
> at least get some feedback that there will not be a big NAK on the
> whole approach in the end.
As long as you are maintaining compatibility with old dtbs (which you
are), then there shouldn't be a problem. I think the original dust up
occurred because two different maintainers merged two different
solutions and didn't run into each other. This looks like a sane
cleanup of the resulting mess. :)
thx,
Jason.
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