[PATCH 1/9 V3] Remove support for the legacy DTS source file format.

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Oct 1 11:26:18 EST 2008


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:30:19AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:25:40PM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
>>> Now that all in-kernel-tree DTS files are properly /dts-v1/,
>>> remove direct support for the older, un-numbered DTS
>>> source file format.
>>>
>>> Convert existing tests to /dts-v1/ and remove support
>>> for the conversion tests themselves.
>>>
>>> For now, though, the conversion tool still exists.
>>
>> Hrm.  Again, I don't think we should need to do this.
>
> Older dtc versions are still around for those that need them...
> IIUC, keeping the old syntax around will complicate the code when
> adding the new features.

I realise that, I'm just not all that convinced it's a good tradeoff
at this time.

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