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From: krzk@kernel.org (Krzysztof Kozlowski)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] dt-bindings: arm: Explicitly mark Samsung Exynos SoC as unstable
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:57:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180917155749.i6jx7k4vo32y56kd@kozik-lap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180830180205.18121-1-krzk@kernel.org>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:02:05PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Samsung Exynos SoCs and boards related bindings evolved since the initial
> introduction, but initially the bindings were minimal and a bit incomplete
> (they never described all the hardware modules available in the SoCs).
> Since then some significant (not fully compatible) changes have been
> already committed a few times (like gpio replaced by pinctrl, display ddc,
> mfc reserved memory, some core clocks added to various hardware modules,
> added more required nodes).
> 
> On the other side there are no boards which have device tree embedded in
> the bootloader. Device tree blob is always compiled from the kernel tree
> and updated together with the kernel image.
> 
> Thus to avoid further adding a bunch of workarounds for old/missing
> bindings, make development of new platforms easier and allow to make
> cleanup of the existing code and device tree files, lets mark some
> Samsung Exynos SoC platform bindings as unstable. This means that
> bindings can may change at any time and users should use the dtb file
> compiled from the same kernel source tree as the kernel image.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> [krzk: Explicitly list unstable bindings instead of marking entire
> Exynos]
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
> 

Applied.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-17 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-30 18:02 [PATCH v3] dt-bindings: arm: Explicitly mark Samsung Exynos SoC as unstable Krzysztof Kozlowski
2018-08-31 10:40 ` Andi Shyti
2018-08-31 14:02   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2018-09-10 19:55 ` Rob Herring
2018-09-17 15:57 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2018-09-23 13:46 ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-24 17:16   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2018-09-26  3:55     ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-26 14:04       ` Rob Herring

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