Hi Mark, Geert

Sorry for my super late response about this

> > > Given all that, I think we should get rid of the "ak" prefix entirely,
> > > fix up the seaboard dts, and leave the legacy matching for "ak,ak8975"
> > > up to the i2c framework. However, that would imply deleting from
> > > vendor-prefixes.txt (if we want people to be warned on use of "ak"), and
> > > that's not a good precedent to set.
> > 
> > Instead of deleting, we can deprecate, like was done for powervr:
> > 
> > powervr PowerVR (deprecated, use img)
> 
> Ah. I tried to see if we had any deprecated bindings, but I somehow
> failed to search correctly and missed powervr.
> 
> > Still missing is an update for checkpatch to warn when a deprecated
> > vendor prefix is used.
> 
> Marking it deprecated and warning with checkpatch is certainly
> preferable.

I guess removing "ak" line from vendor-prefixes.txt is very enough
for warn for a deprecated vendor prefix on checkpatch ?

  ...
- ak    Asahi Kasei Corp.
  ...
+ asahi-kasei   Asahi Kasei Corp.

Best regards
---
Kuninori Morimoto
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