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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 01:37:33 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 8:00 AM Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:

> Linus: would be good to know how long we should keep the support for
> this deprecated dt property.

We use the "noone hears the tree fall in an empty forest"-metric.
If no user suffers, we can drop it. Determining that requires some
kind of reasoning about when that happens, and then the maintainer
of the driver decides.

Yours,
Linus Walleij