[PATCH] [POWERPC] Make it blatently clear; 5200 device tree is not yet stable

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun Jan 14 11:42:30 EST 2007


On 1/13/07, Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > Please apply for 2.6.20.  This is documentation only, but I don't want
> > to give people false assumptions about the stability of the 5200 device
> > tree bindings
>
> Good idea.

Thanks.  :)

> > +********** DRAFT ***********
> > +* WARNING: Do not depend on definiton remaining static between
> > +* kernel versions.  The 5200 device tree conventions are still in flux
> > +* and could change without notice.  Keep an eye on the linuxppc-dev
> > +* mailing list for more details
> > +*
> > +* Hopefully by 2.6.21 it will be stable.  ---gcl, Jan 13, 2007
> > +********** DRAFT ***********
>
> But could you please rephrase in a way that doesn't suggest
> the *kernel* defines what the device bindings are?  They are
> only documented in the kernel tree right now, sure, but that's
> not the same thing ;-)

Gah!  Good point.  I do *not* what to go down the "this is for Linux
only" path.  In fact, perhaps I should start looking for a better
place to host this stuff.   Maybe freescale or power.org?

g.

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