Re: [PATCH][resend] of: Add vendor 2nd prefix for Asahi Kasei Corp

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Mark,

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Given all that, I think we should get rid of the "ak" prefix entirely,
> fix up the seaboard dts, and leave the legacy matching for "ak,ak8975"
> up to the i2c framework. However, that would imply deleting from
> vendor-prefixes.txt (if we want people to be warned on use of "ak"), and
> that's not a good precedent to set.

Instead of deleting, we can deprecate, like was done for powervr:

powervr PowerVR (deprecated, use img)

Still missing is an update for checkpatch to warn when a deprecated
vendor prefix is used.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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