From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: dt-bindings: Explicitly mark Samsung Exynos SoC bindings as unstable Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:57:59 +0200 Message-ID: <9466376.zSd3pI8yRi@amdc3058> References: <20180528191327.23772-1-krzk@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-reply-to: <20180528191327.23772-1-krzk@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Kukjin Kim , Pankaj Dubey , Marek Szyprowski , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chanwoo Choi , Seung-Woo Kim , Inki Dae , Sylwester Nawrocki , Alim Akhtar , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Monday, May 28, 2018 09:13:27 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > From: Marek Szyprowski > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics