[Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, Richard Cochran wrote:

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:40:18AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:48:26AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:

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[ I disagree about the "more thought" part. The current discussion,
  coming years too late after the introduction of DT to ARM Linux, is
  contrary evidence enough. ]

We did have exactly the same discussion when the DT transition was
started - this isn't something that people only just realised might be
an issue.  There was a deliberate decision to focus on getting the
technology deployed to the point where it could be used as a straight
replacement for board files and accept that sometimes the results won't
be perfect and that we may need to rework as a result.

Can you tell a bit more about this decision? When was it made? Who
made it? How was it made public?

I remember seeing some of the discussion on linux-kernel at the time. I believe 
there was also a LWN article.

David Lang