From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: computersforpeace@gmail.com (Brian Norris) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 17:59:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH v3 00/13] mtd: st_spi_fsm: Align with ST's internal development In-Reply-To: <20150121124930.GA22024@x1> References: <1418644760-18773-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20150113051452.GR9759@ld-irv-0074> <20150121124930.GA22024@x1> Message-ID: <20150206015917.GA18140@ld-irv-0074> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:49:30PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brian Norris wrote: > > Typically "simpler" and "reducing the cost of having lots of extra DT > > properties" aren't good enough reasons for immediately breaking an > > existing DT binding. We usually expect to support both for some period > > of time. > > Only once a binding has became ABI. As there are no users of this > driver yet (this will change after this sync'ing patch-set has been > applied), so we can safely consider this binding to be in-progress and > as such, not yet ABI, thus we can do this ol' switch-aroo without the > usual 6 month deprecation period. OK, fine with me. Brian