On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:04:36AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:44:22AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:14:33AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > > On the other side, I'm much interested in knowing if you are OK with > > > breaking the watchdog DT compatibility. If you NACK this, then I'll > > > start preparing a different watchdog driver for 370/XP, since I don't > > > want to extend a driver that is a bit dirty. > > > > Apparently there is some agreement that the bindings are still in flux > > and that they need to be for a bit longer in order to hammer out > > problems such as this. > > > > Arnd and Olof both mentioned that something (a doc, and email?) is > > forthcoming about marking some bindings as stable. Whatever form that > > takes, this one wouldn't get the stable marking yet. ;-) > > > > Yup, that's my understanding as well. But on the other side, I don't > want to break possible users out there. I agree, but living with a sub-standard binding is worse imho. > So, just to check, you say it's early enough to safely do such change? Well, it's not *safe*. But most consumers on mainline kernels are currently developer/hackers/distro maintainers. eg, folks who can handle it. It's better to do it now. > In that case, I'll extend this patchset to include Armada 370/XP support > and post it as soon as Sebastian's clocksource stuff gets in. Cool. thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
