[RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

Robert Schwebel robert at schwebel.de
Fri May 29 00:24:20 EST 2009


On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:17:43PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> I was wondering what the pros/cons of having a system that takes a
> device tree and manufactures platform devices / etc from it? I think
> one of the cons is that if you change the platform device data, then
> you have not only the board definitions to change, but the of->platform
> code to modify as well...

I think a unification of both data structures would be much better than
having two of them ontop of each other.

rsc
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