[PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: usb: mt6360-tcpc: Drop interrupt-names

Conor Dooley conor at kernel.org
Tue Jan 23 09:14:32 PST 2024


On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:32:30AM +0100, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Il 19/01/24 17:32, Conor Dooley ha scritto:
> > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 10:41:04AM +0100, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> > > This IP has only one interrupt, hence interrupt-names is not necessary
> > > to have.
> > > Since there is no user yet, simply remove interrupt-names.
> > 
> > I'm a bit confused chief. Patch 2 in this series removes a user of this
> > property from a driver, so can you explain how this statement is true?
> > 
> > Maybe I need to drink a few cans of Monster and revisit this patchset?
> > 
> 
> What I mean with "there is no user" is that there's no device tree with any
> mt6360-tcpc node upstream yet, so there is no meaningful ABI breakage.
> Different story would be if there was a device tree using this already, in
> which case, you can make a required property optional but not remove it.

Not every devicetree lives within the kernel.. If the driver is using
it, I'm not inclined to agree that it should be removed.
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