On 04/19/2012 12:38 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Simon Glass,
> 
> In message 
> <capnjgz2-kzlw2-wdbk2qmezurjbpzt1vahnxrf7rhz_xfw6...@mail.gmail.com> you 
> wrote:
>>
>> Fair enough. I hope that doesn't preclude us from using new features
>> for too long.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Most distributions appear to pick up such changes not too fast, so we
> may run into issues here and there.  I think we should decide this on
> a case by case base - here it was a trivial change to the existing
> code that fixed the problem.

The kernel deals with this by packaging a copy of dtc (the source) as
part of the kernel source tree. Then, it can upgrade to new features as
soon as they're needed without any distro dependency.
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