On Wednesday 10 February 2016 15:37:55 Maxime Ripard wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 07:42:02AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > just a ping: > > > > > > Are we really OK with breaking existing DTs in 4.6? (per the code in > > > -next: f7d372ba54ea04d528a291b8dbe34716507bb60b, which is this patch). > > > > I only warn and make sure people are aware of the issue. I leave that > > up to platform maintainers to decide. It depends on the maturity of > > the platform and users. > > The impacted SoCs support is really partial. For the most supported > one, big things like display or sound are totally missing, and we > still update them on a regular basis to add support for new > devices. As such, users are very likely to upgrade the DT from one > version to another just because there's new devices available to > them. And the newest SoC impacted just got introduced in 4.5, and only > has the UART and MMC devices available. > > I think the main problems we had were around people building their own boards and maintaining out-of-tree dts files. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
