[PATCH] Documentation: dt: Explicitly mark Samsung Exynos SoC bindings as unstable

Javier Martinez Canillas javier at osg.samsung.com
Fri Dec 16 06:18:12 PST 2016


Hello Marek,

On 12/16/2016 11:14 AM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Samsung Exynos SoCs and boards related bindings evolved since the initial
> introduction, but initially the bindings were minimal and a bit incomplete
> (they never described all the hardware modules available in the SoCs).
> Since then some significant (not fully compatible) changes have been
> already committed a few times (like gpio replaced by pinctrl, display ddc,
> mfc reserved memory, some core clocks added to various hardware modules,
> added more required nodes).
> 
> On the other side there are no boards which have device tree embedded in
> the bootloader. Device tree blob is always compiled from the kernel tree
> and updated together with the kernel image.
> 
> Thus to avoid further adding a bunch of workarounds for old/missing
> bindings and allow to make cleanup of the existing code and device tree
> files, lets mark Samsung Exynos SoC platform bindings as unstable. This
> means that bindings can may change at any time and users should use the
> dtb file compiled from the same kernel source tree as the kernel image.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> ---

I completely agree with you on this.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at osg.samsung.com>
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Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America



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