On 03/23/2014 11:19 AM, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:37:52 +0100 > Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Required properties; >>> - - compatible: must be "nxp,tda998x" >>> + - compatible: may be "nxp,tda9989", "nxp,tda19988" or "nxp,tda19989" >> >> There is a "DT is ABI" policy and although there is no mainline Linux >> user of current compatible, the correct way would be to deprecate >> "nxp,tda998x" and introduce new compatibles. > > Pratically, what is this way?
Currently, there is no effective way to deprecate a binding or compatible. You just add the one(s) that are more sensible and you mark the old one as DEPRECATED by simply writing it in the binding doc. The driver should support the old binding at least for a while. Sebastian
