On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:59:32AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > If I had today deployed the device trees generated prior to this patch, > and try to boot kernels after this patch with the same device tree, > would they still work as expected? > I don't know it it's an issue right now, but at some point we need to > realize that people will expect old device trees to work on newer > kernels. I don't think anyone's taking that idea terribly seriously right now for ARM, lots of the core SoC bindings are still in flux or not there. Even for PowerPC where this has apparently been achieved I've still had to push back on new mandatory properties being added :/
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