[Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better?

[richardcochran@gmail.com (Richard Cochran)]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:34:12AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> 
> There's another thing with DT bindings that makes them needlessly hard
> to settle on. Let's say you come up with a binding that accurately
> describes the hardware at hand and has been proven to work. Now people
> keep telling you that it might not be good enough, for whatever reason
> so eventually you decide to be bold and tell them that you're aware of
> everything that stable DT bindings imply and that there might be some
> risk of having to maintain two bindings because the first one didn't
> turn out to be perfect and yada yada.

You make a good point here. In my own limited experiences with DT
kernel development, a big debate always emerged about exactly how
these bindings should be called. Not being a real DT expert myself, I
really couldn't understand what the point was, but I just implemented
what the DT people wanted (or just dropped the submission altogether,
in one case).

I think the frustration that you have experienced is simply a result
of the attitude on the DT list. Maybe the real issue is attitude
and personalities, and not the hurdle of stable bindings.

Thanks,
Richard