Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dt-bindings: display: ssd1307fb: Deprecate "-i2c" compatible strings

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:23:54 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The current compatible strings for SSD130x I2C controllers contain both an
> "fb" and "-i2c" suffixes. It seems to indicate that are for a fbdev driver
> and also that are for devices that can be accessed over an I2C bus.
> 
> But a DT is supposed to describe the hardware and not Linux implementation
> details. So let's deprecate those compatible strings and add new ones that
> only contain the vendor and device name, without any of these suffixes.
> 
> These will just describe the device and can be matched by both I2C and SPI
> DRM drivers. The required properties should still be enforced for old ones.
> 
> While being there, just drop the "sinowealth,sh1106-i2c" compatible string
> since that was never present in a released Linux version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> (no changes since v3)
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Drop the "sinowealth,sh1106-i2c", wasn't in a released version (Chen-Yu Tsai)
> - Continue enforcing required properties for deprecated strings (Maxime Ripard)
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop the -i2c suffixes from the compatible strings too (Geert Uytterhoeven)
> 
>  .../bindings/display/solomon,ssd1307fb.yaml   | 44 +++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>