Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i2c: tda998x: Change the compatible strings

[Jean-Francois Moine]

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?

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