Re: [PATCH v3] dt-bindings: iio: adc: ad7923: adjust documentation

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 21/11/2022 11:45, Edmund Berenson wrote:

>>>> I would expect lower number as fallback.
>>> If I remove alone compatibility of 7924 and 7927 in the documentation,
>>
>> I don't understand. 7924 and 7927 are not compatible with each other -
>> neither in old code nor in new - so what do you want to remove?
>>
>>> I will have to remove explicit compatibility match on the driver side,
>>> correct?
>>> Just want to make sure I don't misunderstand you.
>>
>> My comment to which you responded was about order of items. Usually
>> lower number means older device and usually older device is the fallback.
> My response was meant to respond to both your comment to "deprecate
> alone compatibility" and "lower number should be fallback"
> Which I understood in the following way: because 7923, 7924 for one and
> 7927, 7928 are compatible with each other I will remove
> 7924 compatible string from driver and not add 7927 to the driver and
> only add it to the documentation.

That's not what I suggested. I said nothing about driver, I did not even
look there. I *only* asked to mark old variants as "deprecated: true".
Not remove anything from drivers as this would be obvious ABI break.


Best regards,
Krzysztof