[PATCHv0 2/3] rtc: rtc-isl12057: fix isil vs isl naming for intersil

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Arnaud,

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 11:46:21PM +0100, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 10:42:41PM +0100, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
> >
> >> When Intersil ISL12057 driver was introduced by commit 70e123373c05
> >> (rtc: Add support for Intersil ISL12057 I2C RTC chip), the vendor
> >> prefix 'isl' was used instead of the expected 'isil' (Intersil
> >> NASDAQ symbol). Recently, a patch from Philip Zabel (7a6540ca856a,
> >> ARM: mvebu: Change vendor prefix for Intersil Corporation to isil)
> >> fixed that prefix in ReadyNAS devices .dts files (AFAICT, the only
> >> kernel users at the moment).
> >
> > They may be the only in kernel users but someone with an out of tree DT
> > may be using the existing prefix, we shouldn't break compatibility with
> > them so we should support both compatible strings even if we want to
> > deprecate the isl, one.
> 
> Updating the patch in the following way should make it possible to
> support out-of-tree users while avoiding additional uses of 'isl': 
> 
> - have two compatible entries in isl12057_dt_match struct instead of one
>   i.e.:
> 
>     static const struct of_device_id isl12057_dt_match[] = {
>    	{ .compatible = "isl,isl12057" },
>    	{ .compatible = "isil,isl12057" },
>     	{ },
>     };
> 
>   I think it matches the situation we have.
This should work. I suggest to add a comment to the obsolete one to
state not to use it for new boards.

Best regards
Uwe

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