Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932356Ab3GZN6L (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:58:11 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:39795 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754406Ab3GZN6H (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:58:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:57:34 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Jason Cooper , Linus Torvalds , Grant Likely , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Domenico Andreoli , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Dave P Martin , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Message-ID: <20130726135734.GE9858@sirena.org.uk> References: <20130725193135.GT23879@titan.lakedaemon.net> <20130725231848.GJ24642@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="O4mGAVrr2vwGVaZ3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130725231848.GJ24642@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Cookie: You will be awarded some great honor. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.92.69 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1830 Lines: 44 --O4mGAVrr2vwGVaZ3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:18:48AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > It's actually extremely simple. If the bindings are in development, > they must not appear in a -final released kernel. Anything that appears > in a -final kernel becomes part of the ABI at that point. Of course from that point of view there's also an argument that once people have shipped something on a device or generally out of the review process then we have to support it no matter how depressing their choices may have been. --O4mGAVrr2vwGVaZ3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJR8oBLAAoJELSic+t+oim9nkYP/2+KGeINvPKIBntBA06VyYCP loW9ENn0lCGYhea5PNkPAv5FyrpiWRIdU+t/VztkoCLz7CG+48qBjzEA9vD8uavk 2RrZSznQbF2KQLWLswy/TjJR9AXEYu/R4tLLIKCprDDuGx55z6+OoMhcm5LdDJCg iN/xXmiO92Wr8kK94aF24rmzcdwXRzubOVFzgeVHim3+k0G76OsxxPdNSAbbaQZN 4AwFgA2iA3LD3f3unqtl+chGAV52LVQqm3ybggj+NscKRyb61RsXq8gBdm+kWDQ3 tSzEZbHXoSoscs04urgmxHFi8boDN/NclSMwQaeW799NUQ9PPN16oSxZL8+ZJcr+ dGc7toeUuHtkPglJm6CdSHd6t8KStYECvw+Ag40BsseSk8YriWetpNSa1kmLcd53 LROwscq3gfUuiqHYfPV3jIY8+qi6W7JFvV4cIMrierv0tjva51QFCZEa+cpIL6xR gI79jninnRVUSh2OueEZxnHHw8Z7UjTxfrE1vOMaknXR8WE7mSkMsY+Y3TmAwy4Q VVhy0j/fJCOAsSvkOkPs/rhvMNPgMdOj5HpV2eg/wwbEBrfduRD/VSBhEmcvbnJt hZa3OYCsiHkVGXrK9+TTmlvcgcGmPfRPMSIEtJMIyVcGvw40KzAAWdGa5RR4/PYk IN5sdpsS0klTGd6Z/6nt =/YFf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O4mGAVrr2vwGVaZ3-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/