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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