Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: dt-bindings: rockchip: remove RK_FUNC defines

[Johan Jonker]

Hi Heiko,

What's the plan for RK_FUNC_GPIO ? Change all to '0' or keep it?

On 10/15/19 10:10 PM, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> Hi Johan,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2019, 21:10:00 CEST schrieb Johan Jonker:
>> The defines RK_FUNC_1, RK_FUNC_2, RK_FUNC_3 and RK_FUNC_4
>> are no longer used, so remove them to prevent
>> that someone start using them again.
> 
> That won't work. Devicetree provides a slightly flexible promise of
> backwards compatibilty. So a new kernel should still work old devicetrees.
> (not exactly sure if this means dt-binaries and sources or only binaries)
> 
> So while I think RK_FUNC_0-n should not be used anymore, we should
> probably just mark them as "deprecated" in a first step.
> 
> 
> Heiko