[RFC V1] devicetree: Dialog Semiconductor consolidate existing vendor prefixes to standardise on 'dlg'

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:07:57AM +0100, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote:

> > Rob said that the old forms should be marked as deprecated, but I didn't
> > deprecate any "dialog" or "diasemi" entries in this patch because I have
> > only made two types of change:

> > (1) definitions of "diasemi" or "dialog" that have not been used in the kernel;
> > (2) definitions of "diasemi" or "dialog" that are incompatible with existing driver code.

> > In both of these cases they cannot affect any working DTB.

> Ok, that sounds fine then. That just wasn't immediately obvious.

> Could you please note those facts in the commit message when you next
> post?

I thought we were already trying to do the stable ABI thing in wich case
at least the first case (where we just happen to not have in tree DTs
using the identifiers) should still remain supported?  It's not like it
really costs us anything to do it.
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