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Date:   Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:24:04 +0200
From:   Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: staging: remove a couple of ADC bindings
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Hello,

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:13:17 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:

> >> >  .../bindings/staging/iio/adc/lpc32xx-adc.txt       | 16 -------------
> >> >  .../bindings/staging/iio/adc/spear-adc.txt         | 26 ----------------------
> >> >  2 files changed, 42 deletions(-)  
> >
> > We are using the spear-adc driver, which is out of staging
> > in ./drivers/iio/adc/spear_adc.c. So rather than removing its DT binding
> > entirely, it should be moved out of staging.  
> 
> Except I have comments on the spear binding and it's fair game to
> change it being in staging, right?

Sure, I don't care about binding changes. We ship the DT together with
the kernel on those SPEAr600 devices, so the DT backward compatibility
is totally useless for us, which allows to freely change the bindings.

Best regards,

Thomas
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