Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] dt/bindings: Introduce the FSL QorIQ DPAA BMan portal(s)

From: Emil Medve <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:26:37 -0500

Hello Mark,

On 10/23/2014 06:16 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>>> +NOTE:	The bindings described in this document are preliminary and subject to
>>>> +	change
>>>
>>> While we've tried that elsewhere, unstable DT bindings have been shown
>>> to be a major source of pain.
>>
>> Agreed
>>
>>> I'd feel rather uncomfortable accepting a
>>> binding that we already believe to be insufficient to describe the
>>> hardware.
>>>
>>> What do you expect to change?
>>
>> Related bindings seem incomplete. As such, the PAMU binding (pamu.txt)
>> covers incompletely a dynamic LIODN assignment/programming model. The
>> current driver uses a static assignment scheme that the binding needs to
>> include. I also suspect that once the driver starts supporting the
>> dynamic LIODN assignment/programming we might find some wrinkles
> 
> Ok. Given that the driver doesn't seem to be in mainline (per a quick
> grep), just put "DO NOT MERGE" or something like that in the commit
> message. Once this is merged you're going to need to support it.

We have a driver and once the bindings get accepted we'll (update the
driver as needed and) post the code

Cheers,