On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Rob Herring wrote:

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Peter Griffin
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

gpio.txt documents that GPIO properties should be named
"[<name>-]gpios", with <name> being the purpose of this
GPIO for the device.

This change has been done as one atomic commit.

dtb and kernel updates are not necessarily atomic, so you are breaking
compatibility with older dtbs. You should certainly highlight that in
the commit message.

Good idea.

I only point this out. I'll leave it to platform
maintainers whether or not this breakage is acceptable.

This driver is new.  The 'original' bindings are in next.  So this
binding is not even close to being ABI.

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