[RFC PATCH 07/16] dt-bindings: pinctrl: ralink: add new compatible strings

[Arınç ÜNAL]

On 2.03.2023 14:36, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 02/03/2023 11:47, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
>> On 2.03.2023 13:29, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 02/03/2023 11:22, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ## Incorrect naming
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MT7620, MT7621, MT7628, and MT7688 SoCs are incorrectly called Ralink,
>>>>>> introduce new ralink->mediatek compatible strings to address it.
>>>>>
>>>>> So this part was addressed by Rob - we don't do it, because it does not
>>>>> matter. Ralink is now Mediatek, thus there is no conflict and no issues
>>>>> with different vendor used.
>>>>
>>>> I think Rob was rather addressing that updating compatible strings based
>>>> on acquisition or marketing whims is not permitted. This condition does
>>>> not apply here as these SoCs were never Ralink.
>>>>
>>>> I understand your point that Ralink is now MediaTek but still, calling
>>>> these SoCs Ralink would be a bit misleading, don't you think?
>>>
>>> Misleading yes, but also does not matter. At least matter not enough to
>>> justify ABI break, so you would need to deprecate old ones and keep
>>> everything backwards compatible. You still would affect 3rd party users
>>> of DTS, though...
>>
>> I intend to do just that. Introduce new mediatek strings, keep the old
>> ones so it's backwards compatible, therefore don't break the ABI.
>>
>> Instead of deprecating old strings, I intend to introduce the checks I
>> mentioned, on the schema, so the pin muxing bindings only apply if the
>> DT has got a string that won't match multiple schemas. This way it
>> shouldn't affect 3rd party DTs.
> 
> I meant, 3rd party users of DTS. You will replace the compatible in the
> DTS, right? So the DTS exported and used in all other projects, OS,
> firmwares, bootloaders, out of tree kernel forks will stop working.

I plan to change it on the DTs for MediaTek SoCs, yes. Is this a 
problem? From what I can tell, what must be ensured is that old DTs must 
work with newer kernels, not new DTs on older kernels.

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