> Do we really want to polute the drivers and DT files with a ! in the > compatible values? I thought we'd considered that, but chosen having the > drivers that use unstable bindings depend on a Kconfig option as an > alternative, not an additional step? I'd even go further and use "unstable-" as the prefix instead of "!" which is way more explicit. > The one issue with doing this is that if a binding is thought to be > unstable, but becomes stable later without any changes, we'll have to do > busy-work to remove the ! in all the DT files, thus artificially > introducing an incompatibility. Perhaps that's fine though? I'd say yes. Going from unstable to stable is quite a step for a binding and that should be visible and worth a patch IMO. Also, when looking at a DTS file or some driver code, it will avoid confusion/misinterpretation if one can see immediately the status of a binding.
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