Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] DTS: Pandora: fix panel compatibility string

From: [email-masked] (Tony Lindgren)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 07:24:30 -0800

* H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email-masked]> [171128 18:35]:
> Hi,
> 
> > Am 28.11.2017 um 17:18 schrieb Tony Lindgren <[email-masked]>:
> > 
> > * H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email-masked]> [171128 16:17]:
> >> Hi Tony,
> >> 
> >>> Am 28.11.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Tony Lindgren <[email-masked]>:
> >>> 
> >>> * H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email-masked]> [171128 15:52]:
> >>>> We can remove the unnecessary "omapdss," prefix because
> >>>> the omapdrm driver takes care of it when matching with
> >>>> the driver table.
> >>> 
> >>> So is this needed as a fix or is this another clean-up?
> >>> 
> >>> So is this is really needed as a fix?
> >> 
> >> Hm. How do you differentiate between "fix" and "cleanup"?
> >> Maybe it is more a wording than a content issue...
> >> 
> >> For me it is a "fix" because it is semantically wrong to have
> >> a prefix where it is not needed. And "fixing" it changes the
> >> compiler output by 8 bytes.
> > 
> > How about let's call it a "typo fix" then? :)
> 
> Well, it is not really a typo.

Well what if the stable people pick it into earlier stable series
based on the word fix in the subject? That has happened before.

I suggest you update the dts patches to use wording like
"update compatible to use new naming" or something similar.

Regards,

Tony