From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wsa@the-dreams.de (Wolfram Sang) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:20:02 +0100 Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [RFC] of: Allow for experimental device tree bindings In-Reply-To: <5267FA58.9050002@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1382540779-6334-1-git-send-email-treding@nvidia.com> <5267FA58.9050002@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <20131023172001.GA3379@katana> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > Do we really want to polute the drivers and DT files with a ! in the > compatible values? I thought we'd considered that, but chosen having the > drivers that use unstable bindings depend on a Kconfig option as an > alternative, not an additional step? I'd even go further and use "unstable-" as the prefix instead of "!" which is way more explicit. > The one issue with doing this is that if a binding is thought to be > unstable, but becomes stable later without any changes, we'll have to do > busy-work to remove the ! in all the DT files, thus artificially > introducing an incompatibility. Perhaps that's fine though? I'd say yes. Going from unstable to stable is quite a step for a binding and that should be visible and worth a patch IMO. Also, when looking at a DTS file or some driver code, it will avoid confusion/misinterpretation if one can see immediately the status of a binding. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: