Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753451Ab3G1L2P (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:28:15 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:34556 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753412Ab3G1L2N (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:28:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 12:27:46 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Richard Cochran Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , Mark Rutland , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Russell King - ARM Linux , Pawel Moll , Stephen Warren , Domenico Andreoli , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Dave P Martin , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Ian Campbell Message-ID: <20130728112746.GM9858@sirena.org.uk> References: <20130725175702.GC22291@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <51F168FC.9070906@wwwdotorg.org> <20130725182920.GA24955@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20130725184834.GA8296@netboy> <20130725213753.GC17616@obsidianresearch.com> <20130726045433.GB4100@netboy> <20130726171524.GB28895@obsidianresearch.com> <20130727084825.GA4707@netboy> <20130727104018.GC9858@sirena.org.uk> <20130727173748.GA4813@netboy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PI2T0JrbAUafY2qi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130727173748.GA4813@netboy> 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: 2540 Lines: 57 --PI2T0JrbAUafY2qi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 07:37:48PM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:40:18AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > We did have exactly the same discussion when the DT transition was > > started - this isn't something that people only just realised might be > > an issue. There was a deliberate decision to focus on getting the > > technology deployed to the point where it could be used as a straight > > replacement for board files and accept that sometimes the results won't > > be perfect and that we may need to rework as a result. > Can you tell a bit more about this decision? When was it made? Who > made it? How was it made public? I honestly can't remember exactly - it was part of the discussion about keeping the .dtb files in the kernel IIRC. Given the timing and the fact that I remember it it'd have been a mailing list discussion but I couldn't point you at it without searching for a needle in a haystack, sorry. Perhaps there's a LWN writeup or something. It's not the "we don't care" that you're seeing, it's more a product of "we're not sure what we're doing yet, let's give ourselves a pass if we mess things up while we're still learning" so it's probably buried in some thread. --PI2T0JrbAUafY2qi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJR9QAvAAoJELSic+t+oim94hwP/jMU8xE6tke4MrdRyKEsbnje QokN+rpuJ1K1f62HstHucFjmQlTgDd5Wb0MtSKX122Us5++9RRJbtqB2wSxQ72E2 WDFzviIWyFdO6TxXXNzzgJTxROFt8FUDk82RfqTpwP/uYGddcEnfCJXkRqS0VJpJ lWGavSswnGCoK7YqSasSXllrq2WEWZHnQLcwiNjUt9YoAgrimLpTeMbjr4UXys1E uzCG2lBbQh66eB74d+JxHNbkRenibdvLHviGy7xbi3uY7K9MXJI+Ar67VxwGXfRX dGP51h8nHcReZXc4NWlzlB2vwO4FOGfs6A+1VeODHDaoqg/NndLSHNl+44QGCRvK 7mmkgngKFUXQGFbHTtkCRRFPLgSslleBgcmYod5gJ5nbBrkBwX6obGSQhK0XQ/QI NzU98ICbAD6PKSiRyPJuor2b0+0tUEckhslZCdKELxCC7nmAhAWFYVrWsKS/YfBA 6HzVNB0PjtfRH81BEv9/tzaKRPOzo/5IVZsd7AH/esDzYraMuQPh4/utJCA+A1Li LIurv/hqPpOnY6UgJuMckM7isSdJlakFdTJIvIQ4iWFIqmq4p5okLMLbTH1rXE7h Nwsa1lWrd4Br5znuzqZjFKprpm2W5Yf5VLhcIudI04nZnwCiQtrodEUkK9f/Bu3F jGrVvQH67P52AEIFYa9x =L0zL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PI2T0JrbAUafY2qi-- -- 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/