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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] mtd: st_spi_fsm: Align with ST's internal
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:49:30PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brian Norris wrote:
> > Typically "simpler" and "reducing the cost of having lots of extra DT
> > properties" aren't good enough reasons for immediately breaking an
> > existing DT binding. We usually expect to support both for some period
> > of time.
> 
> Only once a binding has became ABI.  As there are no users of this
> driver yet (this will change after this sync'ing patch-set has been
> applied), so we can safely consider this binding to be in-progress and
> as such, not yet ABI, thus we can do this ol' switch-aroo without the
> usual 6 month deprecation period.

OK, fine with me.

Brian