From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757873Ab3GYUIt (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:08:49 -0400 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:59183 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754806Ab3GYUIp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:08:45 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 72.84.113.162 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18WB/DeNPPe8FFyue6kYFLTFjt40fwQ6eg= Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:08:13 -0400 From: Jason Cooper To: Mark Brown Cc: Rob Herring , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Russell King - ARM Linux , Domenico Andreoli , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Dave P Martin , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] Message-ID: <20130725200813.GV23879@titan.lakedaemon.net> References: <20130725193135.GT23879@titan.lakedaemon.net> <20130725200435.GW9858@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130725200435.GW9858@sirena.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:04:35PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 03:31:35PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > > I think the idea of a 'tentative' directory (or 'locked') is churnish, > > but necessary. If I DL'd a tarball and had to type 'tentative' to get > > to the binding doc I wanted, that would be a pretty clear clue to be > > delicate about how I trust/use/plan with that binding. > > Another option for this is to annotate within the document itself. True, and this would make it easier to mark reg, interrupts, etc as stable, and eg 'ti,hwmods' as unstable. However, it could get pretty messy. Perhaps moving to a schema would help with that. thx, Jason.