Re: [PATCH 00/10] Orion Watchdog fixes

[Jason Cooper <jason-NLaQJdtUoK4Be96aLqz0jA@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:04:36AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:44:22AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:14:33AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > On the other side, I'm much interested in knowing if you are OK with
> > > breaking the watchdog DT compatibility. If you NACK this, then I'll
> > > start preparing a different watchdog driver for 370/XP, since I don't
> > > want to extend a driver that is a bit dirty.
> > 
> > Apparently there is some agreement that the bindings are still in flux
> > and that they need to be for a bit longer in order to hammer out
> > problems such as this.
> > 
> > Arnd and Olof both mentioned that something (a doc, and email?) is
> > forthcoming about marking some bindings as stable.  Whatever form that
> > takes, this one wouldn't get the stable marking yet. ;-)
> > 
> 
> Yup, that's my understanding as well. But on the other side, I don't
> want to break possible users out there.

I agree, but living with a sub-standard binding is worse imho.

> So, just to check, you say it's early enough to safely do such change?

Well, it's not *safe*.  But most consumers on mainline kernels are
currently developer/hackers/distro maintainers.  eg, folks who can
handle it.  It's better to do it now.

> In that case, I'll extend this patchset to include Armada 370/XP support
> and post it as soon as Sebastian's clocksource stuff gets in.

Cool.

thx,

Jason.