Re: [PATCH 01/10] dt: bindings: clock: add mtmips SoCs clock device tree binding documentation

[Arınç ÜNAL]

On 21.03.2023 11:27, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 21/03/2023 09:24, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> > > > If we take the calling new things mediatek route, we will never get to
> > > > the bottom of fixing the naming inconsistency.
> > >
> > > All new things, so new SoCs, should be called mediatek, because there is
> > > no ralink and mediatek is already used for them. So why some new
> > > Mediatek SoCs are "mediatek" but some other also new SoCs are "ralink"?
> > >
> > > You can do nothing (and no actual need) about existing inconsistency...
> >
> > I couldn't change ralink -> mediatek because company acquisitions don't
> > grant the change. I don't see any reason to prevent changing mediatek ->
> > ralink without breaking the ABI on the existing schemas.
>
> You cannot change mediatek->ralink without breaking the ABI for the same
> reasons.

Then this is where I ask for an exception.

The current solution only complicates things more.

https://github.com/paraka/linux/pull/1/files#diff-0ae6c456898d08536ce987c32f23f2eb6f4a0f7c38bff9a61bdf3d0daa3f6549R21

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