RE: [PATCH V3 1/3] dts: change Marvell prefix to 'marvell'

[Neil Zhang]

Arnd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 2013年7月15日 3:30
> To: Neil Zhang
> Cc: Jason Cooper; Matt Sealey; grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] dts: change Marvell prefix to 'marvell'
> 
> On Thursday 11 July 2013, Neil Zhang wrote:
> > > > > To do this properly, the drivers are going to have to be
> > > > > compatible with the old and the new names, and the binding docs
> > > > > updated to reflect the legacy name and the preferred name.
> > > >
> > > > Properly would be as above. You can stop using stock tickers for
> > > > new company names, but anything that has been defined in a device
> > > > tree before has to stay that way, and all the manufacturer
> > > > prefixes to device names should be the same. What you're proposing
> > > > is purely driver bloat and increasing the size of kernel.
> > >
> > > *I'm* not proposing to change the name, Neil is.  I'm proposing that
> > > iff they chose to do that, don't break sh*t along the way.
> > >
> >
> > What's your opinion?
> 
> We discussed the topic of fixing bad bindings vs. keeping backwards compatibility
> during last week's Linaro Connect.
> 
> The main outcome was that we need to have a better review for new bindings
> getting merged to avoid this situation in the future, but the general consensus
> seems that bindings that are already in use but were never reviewed properly
> (which should have caught this) should be changed.

So would you mind if I leave it there (discard this patch) and still use the current 'mvrl' prefix for this patch set.

> We will likely establish an annotation in the binding soon to mark those that can
> not be changed as opposed to those that are not considered stable yet.
> 
> 	Arnd


Best Regards,
Neil Zhang
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