[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [RFC] of: Allow for experimental device tree bindings

[Thierry Reding]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:05:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 09:55 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > 
> > So to avoid tainting the kernel and clogging the kernel log I'll have
> > to remove all the "!" from the dt sources, or not use any "!" in the
> > dt bindings in the first place. Given that, not sure if anyone will
> > really use this mechanism. And CONFIG_OF_EXPERIMENTAL/CONFIG_UNSTABLE_DT
> > might have the same ultimate fate as CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
> 
> It's not as if it's hard for you to patch out the check if you really
> want to do that. This is about making it clear to people what they
> should expect if they use staging code/bindings. 

I agree. The kernel is open source, so people are free to patch it in
any way they want. The best we can do is to come up with a good solution
in an upstream kernel. But there's no way we can control things beyond
that, and we don't have to.

Thierry
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