From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Shyti Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] dt-bindings: arm: Explicitly mark Samsung Exynos SoC as unstable Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:40:48 +0300 Message-ID: <20180831104048.GA6545@jack.zhora.eu> References: <20180830180205.18121-1-krzk@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180830180205.18121-1-krzk@kernel.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Mark Rutland , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, Alim Akhtar , Arnd Bergmann , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Pankaj Dubey , Seung-Woo Kim , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Inki Dae , Chanwoo Choi , Rob Herring , Kukjin Kim , Sylwester Nawrocki , Olof Johansson , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Marek Szyprowski List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Krzysztof, 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 ^^^^^^^ you have a typo here, other than that I agree with the patch: Acked-by: Andi Shyti Thanks, Andi