Re: [PATCH 01/29] usb: dwc3: Discard synopsys,dwc3 compatibility string
From: Serge Semin
Date: Tue Oct 20 2020 - 08:33:21 EST
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 02:28:01PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 03:15:06PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM Serge Semin
> > <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Syonpsys IP cores are supposed to be defined with "snps" vendor-prefix.
> > > Discard a DW USB3 compatible string with the deprecated prefix seeing
> > > one isn't used by any dts file anymore.
> >
> > I'm afraid it's no go.
> > It's an ABI from the moment when the driver started supporting this
> > compatible string.
>
> Exactly.
>
> Please mark the compatible as deprecated in bindings, correct the DTSes
> and optionally after one or two years (or any time later) remove the
> support for deprecated bindings.
Ok. I'll just get the original patch back then:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20201014101402.18271-1-Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m0f92acafbd740e63b7156efac58850e0757d2110
and resend the series later after the rest of the patchset have been cooked
a bit.
-Sergey
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>