Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:37:03 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gpio-exar: Use correct property prefix and document bindings |
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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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