Re: [PATCH v3] dt-bindings: arm: Explicitly mark Samsung Exynos SoC as unstable

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:02:05PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Samsung Exynos SoCs and boards related bindings evolved since the initial
> introduction, but initially the bindings were minimal and a bit incomplete
> (they never described all the hardware modules available in the SoCs).
> Since then some significant (not fully compatible) changes have been
> already committed a few times (like gpio replaced by pinctrl, display ddc,
> mfc reserved memory, some core clocks added to various hardware modules,
> added more required nodes).
> 
> On the other side there are no boards which have device tree embedded in
> the bootloader. Device tree blob is always compiled from the kernel tree
> and updated together with the kernel image.
> 
> Thus to avoid further adding a bunch of workarounds for old/missing
> bindings, make development of new platforms easier and allow to make
> cleanup of the existing code and device tree files, lets mark some
> Samsung Exynos SoC platform bindings as unstable. This means that
> bindings can may change at any time and users should use the dtb file
> compiled from the same kernel source tree as the kernel image.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [krzk: Explicitly list unstable bindings instead of marking entire
> Exynos]
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Applied.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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