> The compatibility strings may be present in deployed firmware, they > cannot be removed. For many OCTEON boards, the device tree is a > firmware-kernel ABI, it is not practical to unilaterally decide to > change the bindings on the kernel side as you don't control the > firmware.
Hi David We are keeping backwards compatibility. The kernel has always ignored this string, and will continue to always ignore this string. But since it is being ignored, you may as well remove it in future versions of the DTB. Andrew