Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:57:34 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] |
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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. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |