[pull] tilcdc-next for 3.9

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 04:35:17 PST 2013


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomba at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2013-02-18 14:26, Rob Clark wrote:
>
>> So I'm not going to get too hung up on supporting current DT bindings
>> in the future when we have something better.  But I needed something
>
> I may be mistaken, but my understanding is that DT bindings are like
> kernel's userspace APIs. After they have been merged, they have to work
> in the future kernels also.

and that probably *eventually* makes sense when dts files are kicked
out of the kernel.  For now, it doesn't really seem useful, unlike
maintaining compatibility for userspace ABI's.

BR,
-R

>  Tomi
>


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