[PATCH] dt-bindings: amlogic: add unstable statement

Jerome Brunet jbrunet at baylibre.com
Wed Jun 28 08:39:34 PDT 2017


On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 07:53 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Due to the lack of documentation on this SoC family, discovery of new
> features, and correcting of previous misunderstandings is expected, so
> it's unrealistic to expect any form of stable bindings for this SoC
> family.  Make that clear inthe binding documentation.
> 

Acked-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com>

> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt
> index bfd5b558477d..9be902b4656d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt
> @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
>  Amlogic MesonX device tree bindings
>  -------------------------------------------
>  
> +Work in progress statement:
> +
> +Device tree files and bindings applying to Amlogic SoCs and boards are
> +considered "unstable". Any Amlogic device tree binding may change at
> +any time. Be sure to use a device tree binary and a kernel image
> +generated from the same source tree.
> +
> +Please refer to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ABI.txt for a definition of
> a
> +stable binding/ABI.
> +
> +---------------------------------------------------------------
> +
>  Boards with the Amlogic Meson6 SoC shall have the following properties:
>    Required root node property:
>      compatible: "amlogic,meson6"




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