Hi Andrew, On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 3:41 PM Andrew Lunn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sven > > One option would be to submit a patch or a patchset changing all > existing device tree files to make use of the core method. Anybody > cut/pasting will then automatically use the correct core way of doing > it. > > There is also a move towards using YAML to verify the correctness of > DT files. It should be possible to mark the old property as > deprecated, so there will be a build time warning, not a boot time > warning. >
Thanks for the helpful suggestions, that makes sense. What I keep forgetting in my little arm-imx6 world, is that devicetrees aren't in-kernel apis, but that they have out-of-kernel dependencies. It makes more sense to to see them as userspace apis, albeit directed at firmware/bootloaders, right? So if bootloaders were as varied/uncontrollable as userspace, then deprecated properties would have to be supported forever...
