Re: [PATCH 01/10] dt: bindings: clock: add mtmips SoCs clock device tree binding documentation

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 21/03/2023 09:24, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
>>>
>>> If we take the calling new things mediatek route, we will never get to
>>> the bottom of fixing the naming inconsistency.
>>
>> All new things, so new SoCs, should be called mediatek, because there is
>> no ralink and mediatek is already used for them. So why some new
>> Mediatek SoCs are "mediatek" but some other also new SoCs are "ralink"?
>>
>> You can do nothing (and no actual need) about existing inconsistency...
> 
> I couldn't change ralink -> mediatek because company acquisitions don't 
> grant the change. I don't see any reason to prevent changing mediatek -> 
> ralink without breaking the ABI on the existing schemas.

You cannot change mediatek->ralink without breaking the ABI for the same
reasons.

Best regards,
Krzysztof