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From: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [RFC] of: Allow for experimental device tree bindings
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:05:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1382544332.8522.40.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382540779-6334-1-git-send-email-treding@nvidia.com>

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 17:06 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> +       /* check if binding is experimental */
> +       if (dev != device || drv != driver) {
> +               pr_warn("of: device %s (%s) uses an experimental binding\n",
> +                       np->name, np->full_name);
> +

In the discussions earlier I think we decided that this should set a
taint flag too. If you've built a kernel with CONFIG_OF_EXPERIMENTAL
(which I think we were calling CONFIG_UNSTABLE_DT) then you have no
expectation that it will boot tomorrow, although it might work with your
DTB today.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-23 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23 15:06 [RFC] of: Allow for experimental device tree bindings Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 16:05 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2013-10-23 16:55   ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Guenter Roeck
2013-10-23 17:05     ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-23 18:56       ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 18:51   ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 22:26     ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-25  8:22       ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-25  8:45         ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-23 16:33 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-23 17:20   ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Wolfram Sang
2013-10-23 18:59     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 19:34       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-23 19:58         ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 21:08           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-24  8:04             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 17:32               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-23 21:13           ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-10-23 19:40       ` Wolfram Sang
2013-10-23 20:05         ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24  8:34     ` Grant Likely
2013-10-24  8:50       ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 20:26       ` Matt Sealey
2013-10-24 22:29       ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-24 18:39 ` jonsmirl at gmail.com

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