Messages in this thread | | | From | Javier Martinez Canillas <> | Date | Tue, 29 May 2018 09:06:42 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: dt-bindings: Explicitly mark Samsung Exynos SoC bindings as unstable |
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On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 9:13 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote: > From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> > > 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 <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> >
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Best regards, Javier
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