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

[David Lang]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, Richard Cochran wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:40:18AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:48:26AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> >
> > > [ I disagree about the "more thought" part. The current discussion,
> > >   coming years too late after the introduction of DT to ARM Linux, is
> > >   contrary evidence enough. ]
> >
> > We did have exactly the same discussion when the DT transition was
> > started - this isn't something that people only just realised might be
> > an issue.  There was a deliberate decision to focus on getting the
> > technology deployed to the point where it could be used as a straight
> > replacement for board files and accept that sometimes the results won't
> > be perfect and that we may need to rework as a result.
>
> Can you tell a bit more about this decision? When was it made? Who
> made it? How was it made public?

I remember seeing some of the discussion on linux-kernel at the time. I believe 
there was also a LWN article.

David Lang
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