Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] reset: hisilicon: correct vendor prefix

[Rob Herring]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:16 PM Leizhen (ThunderTown)
<thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2020/12/8 7:08, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 09:42:34AM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> >> The vendor prefix of "Hisilicon Limited" is "hisilicon", it is clearly
> >> stated in "vendor-prefixes.yaml".
> >
> > Yes, but you can't fix this as changing it breaks compability between
> > DTBs and kernels.
> >
> > hisi has to be documented and marked 'deprecated'.
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> I searched, and this is the only place that uses the hisi prefix. Currently,
> YAML check will report warnings due to mismatch any of the regexes defined
> in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
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> Is it not good to add hisi prefix to clear warnings?
> "^hisi,.*":
>   description: Hisilicon Limited, deprecated.
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> By the way, Hi Rob:
> The license information in some YAML files is incorrect. Can you correct it in v5.11?
> For example:
> WARNING: DT binding documents should be licensed (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> #26: FILE: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/allwinner,sun8i-a83t-ths.yaml:1:
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

No, I can't change them. I'm not the copyright holder. The ones that
are not dual licensed are most likely converted from the old text
bindings which were default GPL2.

Rob