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SubjectRe: [PATCH] gpio-exar: Use correct property prefix and document bindings
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> On 2017-07-17 19:48, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 08:44:26AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> The device-specific property should be prefixed with the vendor name
>>> Change this and document the bindings of this platform device.
>>
>> You are breaking backwards compatibility. You minimally need to state
>> that and why that is okay in this case.
>
> There is no previous version yet: The patch that introduced this just
> entered for 4.13. Linus remarked that "linux," is the wrong prefix and
> wanted this to be changed before this version becomes final.

Please describe this in the commit message and add a Fixes tag.

Rob

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