From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] thermal: armada: Remove support for A375-Z1 SoC Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:31:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20141121233139.3a117e1c@free-electrons.com> References: <1415116839-4323-1-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> <1415116839-4323-2-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> <20141120193804.GA7252@developer> <20141121201858.GB22670@titan.lakedaemon.net> <20141121225122.1165b466@free-electrons.com> <20141121220503.GJ22670@titan.lakedaemon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:59138 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752478AbaKUWbn (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:31:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20141121220503.GJ22670@titan.lakedaemon.net> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: Jason Cooper Cc: Eduardo Valentin , Ezequiel Garcia , Zhang Rui , Gregory Clement , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn , Sebastian Hesselbarth , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Hello, On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:05:03 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: > > So the suggestion would be to not document the DT bindings at all, > > until we reach a "stable" hardware that is distributed externally? > > No, I think it's better to document. However, we should also document > the fact that the binding is for an early version of the SoC and subject > to incompatible change once the production version of the SoC is > released. ie, an un-stable binding. Sounds good. > > I don't mind adjusting how DT bindings are documented for such early > > SoCs stepping. But I really believe it's important to have a way to > > handle this situation nicely: we've been asking for years SoC vendors > > to start upstreaming their code early. Now that they start to do it, we > > shouldn't complain and instead adapt to this situation :-) > > Does the above proposal meet your expectations? Absolutely! Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com