Hi, On Mon, Jul 16 2012, Linus Walleij wrote: >> Uhm, I seem to have missed that bindings are deemed more "flexible" as >> long as they are coupled to in-kernel dts files? Is that discussed >> somewhere? I do wonder about it... > > Well patches like this are sent out but not commented on from > the perspective of binding stability. So of course, they get merged. > > Have a look at this commit: > > commit 7f217794ffa72f208a250b79ab0b7ea3de19677f > Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun May 13 00:14:24 2012 -0400 > > mmc: dt: Consolidate DT bindings > > This is deleting custom properties from DTS files without > adding any code to fallback-support them on old device trees. I agree with your point, but just as an FYI: this patch did involve a conversation about binding stability, and left some attributes (e.g. ti,non-removable) purposefully alone (and different to the new generic MMC bindings) to preserve backwards compatibility: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.samsung-soc/10409 Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
