[pull] tilcdc-next for 3.9

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 2013-02-18 14:35, Rob Clark wrote:
> 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.

Why does that matter? Afaik, the dts files are in the kernel for
convenience, and as examples. You can as well have the DT data in your
bootloader.

Or has there been a clear decision that while the dts files are in the
kernel, they are considered unstable?

 Tomi