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From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
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Date:   Mon, 18 Apr 2022 12:48:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/2] dt-bindings: interconnect: Remove sc7180/sdx55 ipa compatibles
To:     Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
        Georgi Djakov <djakov@kernel.org>
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        Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
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Quoting Alex Elder (2022-04-15 13:15:21)
> On 4/14/22 7:58 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > These interconnects are modeled as clks, not interconnects, therefore
> > remove the compatibles from the binding as they're unused.
> >
> > Cc: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Taniya Das <quic_tdas@quicinc.com>
> > Cc: Mike Tipton <quic_mdtipton@quicinc.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
>
> What's the proper thing to do for properties that stop being
> used?  Do we delete them, like this, or deprecate them somehow?
> Old DTBs might define the values that are deleted here.

I think we leave them around until the last dts user stops using them.

>
> Shouldn't devicetree@vger.kernel.org
>   be copied on this and
> the other DTS patches?

Sure. I added it now. Thanks.

>
> > ---
> >
> > I don't know who should apply this. Probably whoever takes the dtsi
> > patches, Bjorn?, because otherwise dt_bindings_check will fail.
> >
> >   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/qcom,rpmh.yaml | 2 --
> >   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/qcom,rpmh.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/qcom,rpmh.yaml
> > index 5a911be0c2ea..ab859150c7f7 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/qcom,rpmh.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/qcom,rpmh.yaml
> > @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ properties:
> >         - qcom,sc7180-config-noc
> >         - qcom,sc7180-dc-noc
> >         - qcom,sc7180-gem-noc
> > -      - qcom,sc7180-ipa-virt
> >         - qcom,sc7180-mc-virt
> >         - qcom,sc7180-mmss-noc
> >         - qcom,sc7180-npu-noc
> > @@ -68,7 +67,6 @@ properties:
> >         - qcom,sdm845-mem-noc
> >         - qcom,sdm845-mmss-noc
> >         - qcom,sdm845-system-noc
> > -      - qcom,sdx55-ipa-virt
> >         - qcom,sdx55-mc-virt
> >         - qcom,sdx55-mem-noc
> >         - qcom,sdx55-system-noc
>