From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758536Ab3GZKzu (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 06:55:50 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:44081 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756819Ab3GZKzr (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 06:55:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:55:19 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Rob Herring Cc: Olof Johansson , "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" Message-ID: <20130726105519.GZ9858@sirena.org.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rF/K8g1/cqPmwA9E" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: You will be awarded some great honor. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.92.69 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --rF/K8g1/cqPmwA9E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 02:11:31PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > I would argue that little has gone in (if reviewed) with the > expectation that the binding will change. Many of the common bindings > have had many rounds of review and they have not changed. My position > any time I see an incompatible change has been that it require anyone > affected to be okay with the change. This has pretty much been limited > to specific platforms from what I've seen. The big exception I've seen has been the OMAP hwmod stuff. Plus of course the case where things get moved into the DT bindings from the board file as things are built up, but this should be becoming a non issue as people move onto DT only boards (though I am worried about people on systems where the SoC is described in DT). --rF/K8g1/cqPmwA9E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJR8lWUAAoJELSic+t+oim9UH0P/R7oRtO4An4tjF6iqo7gHp0Z Bx5V5GeP6PRC2ZLz266cgjB3/1hSZZFgGjPvBsox4tSQGdPTlEmAbdgqbKYFeNch 48DTTZhHfSu4UL0x4jx4Fqiv7RUAN2bOPDkdmGnc6XBZZ5u3QtAzhfVbEZHTl0g/ B4xjRtK63hC5yRzQzsisLNt+KOHeDzyBqxQQBqK3MXk+yg+L4onKgLkAv014Ej2y zmAEwvxG3fMYPHSdbrAAnOhdqXxZVy9gff4Abt3ApEMsS1hyyufDJnJvnMwlmz8m XJpxI9Jq9LbahatrUS2668lfpvkjtkOXDJwisJPgwalNMr4yC7T8suDQ9qys22ao t/GfsnxwM5veptXbVDpKvja8K1SWy+4P8xAWNH1h/gdYTpIqc2Kx3TGvr8P50oXA b/kGPU4cQsNCE5Bgh8q+y1Ndi+gnPxlqh7RM9lGYjRvuOKgvXhMQWdQmY0CqRUvd tducQkbISXmW6HnhkHFkMSz5QNxhyaVCyqL/jwkdRcy8c+GkdwUxleyJ1CQjJ7Aa +iYMus+6gEmT0dDFLDFefqZe3NZRXRoQuqKJnc6www2aoNXulkWIlmh7DUbLKRul 8LqnaB6NB3+5Naq/mMeXHJckxRdv5IRtpgI18N+iqMyO7606mB2SagUalP8UCgOH IhjO9LrpLtEg5FsKFWTy =VU8c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rF/K8g1/cqPmwA9E--