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

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Nov 5 21:32:53 PST 2014


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.
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