linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]

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Message-ID: <20130728174127.GB9858@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 28 Jul 2013 18:41:27 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	"jonsmirl@...il.com" <jonsmirl@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have
 people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:50:19AM -0400, jonsmirl@...il.com wrote:

> "furture proof" is much easier to say that it is to do. We've been
> messing around with the audio bindings for three years and still don't
> have a really good scheme. It is pretty easy to come up with the first
> 90% of a device tree. It is really hard to work out that last 10%.

I wouldn't say that for audio - we've got a pretty solid idea of what's
going on and little if any churn.  If some more of the subsystems that
we rely on were working well we could do a bit more but it's mostly just
extensions of where we're at now.

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