On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:29:55AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > As far as I can see, all stable DTB gets you is the ability to flash > the DTB into the firmware and never change it. Who does that actually > help?
Once I design my board, and it goes into production, the hardware is fixed. It doesn't change, and neither should the description of the hardware, also known as the DTB. If I have to research all of the ways that the bindings changed in order to upgrade my kernel, then I am better off with the old, static, platform data. At least there the compiler would complain if fields are removed or renamed. I understand that having the bindings in flux makes life easier for kernel developers, as it frees them from the burden of having to think about the consequences of their hasty decisions. But those people are not the only users. There is a much larger body of users than that. Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
