[Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]
From: broonie@kernel.org (Mark Brown)
Date: 2013-07-26 13:58:11
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:18:48AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
It's actually extremely simple. If the bindings are in development, they must not appear in a -final released kernel. Anything that appears in a -final kernel becomes part of the ABI at that point.
Of course from that point of view there's also an argument that once people have shipped something on a device or generally out of the review process then we have to support it no matter how depressing their choices may have been. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20130726/09c3df80/attachment.sig>