From: thierry.reding@gmail•com (Thierry Reding)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [RFC] of: Allow for experimental device tree bindings
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:56:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131023185603.GB7863@ulmo.nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382547916.8522.42.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:05:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 09:55 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >
> > So to avoid tainting the kernel and clogging the kernel log I'll have
> > to remove all the "!" from the dt sources, or not use any "!" in the
> > dt bindings in the first place. Given that, not sure if anyone will
> > really use this mechanism. And CONFIG_OF_EXPERIMENTAL/CONFIG_UNSTABLE_DT
> > might have the same ultimate fate as CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
>
> It's not as if it's hard for you to patch out the check if you really
> want to do that. This is about making it clear to people what they
> should expect if they use staging code/bindings.
I agree. The kernel is open source, so people are free to patch it in
any way they want. The best we can do is to come up with a good solution
in an upstream kernel. But there's no way we can control things beyond
that, and we don't have to.
Thierry
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 15:06 [RFC] of: Allow for experimental device tree bindings Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 16:05 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " David Woodhouse
2013-10-23 16:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-23 17:05 ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-23 18:56 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2013-10-23 18:51 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 22:26 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-25 8:22 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-25 8:45 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-23 16:33 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-23 17:20 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Wolfram Sang
2013-10-23 18:59 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 19:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-23 19:58 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 21:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-24 8:04 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 17:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-23 21:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-10-23 19:40 ` Wolfram Sang
2013-10-23 20:05 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 8:34 ` Grant Likely
2013-10-24 8:50 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 20:26 ` Matt Sealey
2013-10-24 22:29 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-24 18:39 ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
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