Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]

From: [email-masked] (Richard Cochran)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:35:46 +0200

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:09:57AM -0400, jonsmirl at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 3.z kernel is free to alter the schema. But it will have to supply the
> necessary quirks needed to keep those old dtb's functioning.

The quirks idea sounds okay to me, if it can really provide forward
compatibility. In practice, I doubt anyone will really spend the
effort to make this work. I think it would be much easier to make sure
the bindings are "future proof" in the first place.

Thanks,
Richard