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authorOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>2011-12-21 11:25:43 +0200
committerOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>2012-02-22 18:28:34 +0200
commit489d129a2f7abd04054fad44e589989f3fa7fd7c (patch)
treebb43699a919483be495e3a5532a8c38697b76ddb /drivers/remoteproc
parentf8289edae45496477803786c90994d5e072ca66a (diff)
remoteproc: depend on EXPERIMENTAL
Remoteproc is still under development and as it gets traction we definitely expect to do some changes in the binary format (most probably only in the resource table, e.g. the upcoming move to TLV-based entries). Active testing and use of remoteproc is most welcome, but we don't want users to expect backward binary compatibility with the preliminary images we have today. Therefore mark remoteproc as EXPERIMENTAL, and explicitly inform the user about this when a new remote processor is registered. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Rob Clark <rob@ti.com> Cc: Mark Grosen <mgrosen@ti.com> Cc: Ludovic BARRE <ludovic.barre@stericsson.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/remoteproc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig3
-rw-r--r--drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig b/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
index 00fb72faf77..25fc4ccbc2e 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-menu "Remoteproc drivers"
+menu "Remoteproc drivers (EXPERIMENTAL)"
# REMOTEPROC gets selected by whoever wants it
config REMOTEPROC
tristate
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
config OMAP_REMOTEPROC
tristate "OMAP remoteproc support"
diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
index f2354cee42b..6212b82885d 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
@@ -1275,6 +1275,9 @@ int rproc_register(struct rproc *rproc)
dev_info(rproc->dev, "%s is available\n", rproc->name);
+ dev_info(dev, "Note: remoteproc is still under development and considered experimental.\n");
+ dev_info(dev, "THE BINARY FORMAT IS NOT YET FINALIZED, and backward compatibility isn't yet guaranteed.\n");
+
/* create debugfs entries */
rproc_create_debug_dir(rproc);