From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Rutland Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ARM: dts: exynos: Remove skeleton.dtsi usage and fix memory node DTC warnings Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:40:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20160901114046.GB4220@leverpostej> References: <1472645679-5696-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <12377780.GCreFUiXAa@amdc1976> <21e643af-bff7-2563-0254-d2b6e4a9a385@osg.samsung.com> <11690712.d89FASKYvI@amdc1976> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11690712.d89FASKYvI@amdc1976> Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas , Krzysztof Kozlowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Kukjin Kim , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:59:48AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Thursday, September 01, 2016 10:35:15 AM Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > > On 08/31/2016 07:40 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 03:45:24 PM Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > > >> The idea is to get rid of skeleton.dtsi [0], but that will of course take > > >> time until the dtsi is removed from all the files. So this patch is a step > > >> in the right direction so at least Exynos is not a blocker to remove it. > > > > > > Krzysztof's point is valid. If you are going to convert all DTS/DTSI > > > then it is okay to apply Exynos specific changes, otherwise the code > > > should stay as it is currently. > > > > > > Exynos won't be a blocker since we have your patches now and they can > > > be applied when/if needed ;).. > > > > Sorry but I disagree. I see no reasons to need this to be an atomic, rather > > than incremental change. Deprecated things are usually handled by removing > > the usage and once there are no users, finally removing them. > > Yes, given that there is agreement on the direction and people are aware > of the needed changes. This doesn't seem to be a case yet as there is > no comment in skeleton.dtsi about being deprecated and other platforms' > Maintainers are not aware of the need for the change. On the DT side we're all agreed that skeleton.dtsi should die. I'll send a patch adding a note to skeleton.dtsi to make this more obvious, but that shouldn't be a blocker for removing existing uses. Thanks, Mark.