[PATCH] ARM: dts: explicitly mark skeleton.dtsi as deprecated

[PATCH] ARM: dts: explicitly mark skeleton.dtsi as deprecated

[Mark Rutland]

As noted in commit 3ebee5a2e141496b ("arm64: dts: kill skeleton.dtsi"),
there are a number of problems with skeleton.dtsi, and it would be
prefereable to remove it entirely. As there are a large number of
existing users, fixing these up will take a while.

This patch adds a note to arm's skeleton.dtsi noting that this is the
case, to make this more obvious and hopefully minimize new uptake of
skeleton.dtsi in the mean time.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
index b41d241..28b81d6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 /*
+ * This file is deprecated, and will be removed once existing users have been
+ * updated. New dts{,i} files should *not* include skeleton.dtsi, and should
+ * instead explicitly provide the below nodes only as required.
+ *
  * Skeleton device tree; the bare minimum needed to boot; just include and
  * add a compatible value.  The bootloader will typically populate the memory
  * node.
-- 
1.9.1

[PATCH] ARM: dts: explicitly mark skeleton.dtsi as deprecated

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:40:37PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> As noted in commit 3ebee5a2e141496b ("arm64: dts: kill skeleton.dtsi"),
> there are a number of problems with skeleton.dtsi, and it would be
> prefereable to remove it entirely. As there are a large number of
> existing users, fixing these up will take a while.
> 
> This patch adds a note to arm's skeleton.dtsi noting that this is the
> case, to make this more obvious and hopefully minimize new uptake of
> skeleton.dtsi in the mean time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@arm.com>

This should have been linaro.org. not sure how I managed that.

Mark.

> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
> index b41d241..28b81d6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi
> @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
>  /*
> + * This file is deprecated, and will be removed once existing users have been
> + * updated. New dts{,i} files should *not* include skeleton.dtsi, and should
> + * instead explicitly provide the below nodes only as required.
> + *
>   * Skeleton device tree; the bare minimum needed to boot; just include and
>   * add a compatible value.  The bootloader will typically populate the memory
>   * node.
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

[PATCH] ARM: dts: explicitly mark skeleton.dtsi as deprecated

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:40:37PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> As noted in commit 3ebee5a2e141496b ("arm64: dts: kill skeleton.dtsi"),
>> there are a number of problems with skeleton.dtsi, and it would be
>> prefereable to remove it entirely. As there are a large number of
>> existing users, fixing these up will take a while.
>>
>> This patch adds a note to arm's skeleton.dtsi noting that this is the
>> case, to make this more obvious and hopefully minimize new uptake of
>> skeleton.dtsi in the mean time.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@arm.com>
>
> This should have been linaro.org. not sure how I managed that.

Well, kernel.org really.

I was going to ask if we were getting close with the recent activity,
but I just looked and no there's still a ton.

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>