[PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

[Joel A Fernandes]

Hi Richard,

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Richard Cochran
<richardcochran at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 09:31:04PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>> The following patchset introduces Device Tree overlays, a method
>> of dynamically altering the kernel's live Device Tree.
>
> It would be nice to know the motivation for this code.
>
> What is the use case? What problem or issue is being addressed?

The problem being addressed is discussed in this thread:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1389017

Regards,
Joel