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Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number.

From Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number.
Date 2016-05-26 03:20 +0200
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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

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[PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-24 18:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-24 19:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-24 20:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-24 20:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-24 21:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-05-25 14:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 15:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 14:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 01:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 02:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 19:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 20:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 20:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 20:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-26 03:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-05-26 03:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-26 04:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-26 12:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-26 13:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-26 20:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-26 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-27 18:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-05-24 19:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-05-25 11:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 12:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-25 13:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-05-25 14:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 15:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 17:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-05-25 18:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 18:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 20:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 20:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 20:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-27 20:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> - 2016-05-28 23:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-30 18:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 17:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-05-25 18:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 20:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus  number. Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 20:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-05-26 10:30 +0200

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