linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the i2c-embedded tree

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdaMB-n7XYcxE8QtAm-WrGc2DR0krfTjQZCbvOL1HYep1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:45:29 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...aro.org>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the
 i2c-embedded tree

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de> wrote:

> Uhm, I seem to have missed that bindings are deemed more "flexible" as
> long as they are coupled to in-kernel dts files? Is that discussed
> somewhere? I do wonder about it...

Well patches like this are sent out but not commented on from
the perspective of binding stability. So of course, they get merged.

Have a look at this commit:

commit 7f217794ffa72f208a250b79ab0b7ea3de19677f
Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date:   Sun May 13 00:14:24 2012 -0400

    mmc: dt: Consolidate DT bindings

This is deleting custom properties from DTS files without
adding any code to fallback-support them on old device trees.

(Actually I like this commit a lot, since it is removing custom MMC
props and replacing these with standard bindings common for all
MMC/SD controllers, but ...)

I think there are more examples if you git log on arch/arm/boot/dts...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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