From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:05:32 +0100 Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [RFC] of: Allow for experimental device tree bindings In-Reply-To: <1382540779-6334-1-git-send-email-treding@nvidia.com> References: <1382540779-6334-1-git-send-email-treding@nvidia.com> Message-ID: <1382544332.8522.40.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5745 bytes Desc: not available URL: