On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Christer Weinigel <chris...@weinigel.se> wrote: > On 05/25/2016 08:44 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:06:46AM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote: >>> On 5/25/2016 10:49 AM, Rob Herring wrote: >> >>>> Things get undocumented all the time when we deprecate them. >> >>> If it is deprecated then it should be documented as deprecated >>> so people do not attempt to use it. >> >> Or we could just remove the code, we don't appear to have any in >> tree users anyway (the few in tree aliases for SPI buses I can see >> are string based). > > Lovely. "Here's something that's simple and useful for users. Let's > break it". What part of "we do not break userspace" do you not > understand? Because that would be a user visible change.
The other saying is "if it is not upstream, it doesn't exist." That said, I don't think we should remove it. Maybe some time later, but first we need a suitable alternative. Rob
