From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thierry Reding Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [RFC] of: Allow for experimental device tree bindings Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:05:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20131023200459.GB8828@mithrandir> References: <1382540779-6334-1-git-send-email-treding@nvidia.com> <5267FA58.9050002@wwwdotorg.org> <20131023172001.GA3379@katana> <20131023185909.GC7863@ulmo.nvidia.com> <20131023193959.GA6777@katana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+g7M9IMkV8truYOl" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131023193959.GA6777@katana> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Stephen Warren , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, ksummit-2013-discuss-cunTk1MwBs98uUxBSJOaYoYkZiVZrdSR2LY78lusg7I@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 08:40:00PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: >=20 > > > I'd even go further and use "unstable-" as the prefix instead of "!" > > > which is way more explicit. > >=20 > > I guess unstable- is as good as anything. I personally think that "!" is > > disturbing enough to the eye to make it abundantly clear that something > > is fishy. >=20 > "!" marks the binding as "special" whatever that is. A busy person might > decide to not look that up as long as it works right now. "unstable-" > (or maybe "unstable!-" ;)) is explicit so people know what they get. We'll need to document this somewhere to make people aware of it. And if nobody bothers to read that documentation then they're not entitled to complain. That said, in my experience people are just as likely to ignore anything with an "unstable" in it until it breaks. Also I don't think "unstable" is the right term. "unstable" implies that it somehow influences the system stability. But that's not the case. "experimental" is much more accurate in that developers are experimenting with the representation. Thierry --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSaCvrAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhMLUP/3daxa2Fj9G7LjhZVCUook6v 9IaXzkB4ytYmOF+KY8gSJRwnaZC4YWFZhTgR49FKjjBOk7ARHcl/cZmX0moXMLZX r26cf1UK3sx/rYW7I38HfoINn0QNELBSGII9E6NbuuBt2zWmBkDcopVJLlpv7cWH e3kYkC3kszohtE9nmgwoGtOJiIOUg70Qv9h0sVHWBaPJyTu52xXBerp9LbBC1d5+ oPBv46V4GSgLI2s8LMua6RTlzAGIGfBLm4kOs/tEQxyorbEZm+EUdrCV+B7U2LqT h37yONfFYDkRmhUHNyUb1jOcArZ2doW9RN2IInXawXmXc28OBJKZZBjLOOz+kBDy NibUcHRpfn2Y1kP1THb6mjbk+NJI/kOoMrCO21OOK7lEdVa/FGqPiriPiKQPUWD0 +4nsmpbuEzaKfO2s5Eag7F+iyEOnSStXyap2u0alH0KnKgZd4Aa0+E8QLHO2jcpA oPvwXDtug8xQ1iULc09bzefqIchAPtuPU5v/EHoXeEJ5IO5tqpmzN4d9KhsDA7Aa V/U8sbX4t0m1AXgtW/1Kje0pCxxfBvr0Ym9046SQkf6Lezb/tktV/o1ZnLoC2OAx QkEAq++bTC8cBoZhsobBkobzHMs5zDWjcE2qhsYQXTEkfUJmceIbPTGtrcKDugO1 4cFQPrPWbVk+DgEbQOyM =Ghhm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html