From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752798AbcEZBKk (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2016 21:10:40 -0400 Received: from 37-46-169-123.customers.ownit.se ([37.46.169.123]:59228 "EHLO zoo.weinigel.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751411AbcEZBKi (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2016 21:10:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. To: Mark Brown , Frank Rowand References: <1464107960-10775-1-git-send-email-christer@weinigel.se> <20160524172045.GN8206@sirena.org.uk> <57449784.4070108@weinigel.se> <20160524183256.GP8206@sirena.org.uk> <5744E51A.1040506@gmail.com> <20160525174932.GA10753@rob-hp-laptop> <5745E9B6.5090204@gmail.com> <20160525184442.GE8206@sirena.org.uk> Cc: Rob Herring , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org From: Christer Weinigel Message-ID: <57464D0A.1030706@weinigel.se> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 03:10:34 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160525184442.GE8206@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/25/2016 08:44 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:06:46AM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote: >> On 5/25/2016 10:49 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > >>> Things get undocumented all the time when we deprecate them. > >> If it is deprecated then it should be documented as deprecated >> so people do not attempt to use it. > > Or we could just remove the code, we don't appear to have any in > tree users anyway (the few in tree aliases for SPI buses I can see > are string based). Lovely. "Here's something that's simple and useful for users. Let's break it". What part of "we do not break userspace" do you not understand? Because that would be a user visible change. /Christer