Question on mpc52xx_common.c

[Robert Schwebel]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:52:55AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> It may be ideal, but I don't think it is realistic.  I'm now of the
> firm opinion that device trees and firmware are *never* perfect.
> Especially when the definition of perfect is a moving target.

Well observed; isn't this the prove of the assumption that the whole
device tree idea is not working? It is *always* inconsistent and it is
*maintenance hell* because out-of-tree ports do *always* breakt because
of string inconsistencies. We have just ported a 8260 board from 2.6.22
to 2.6.25 and it is almost 100% oftree porting. And you do not even have
a single point of a parser, because all this string parsing is
completely scattered all over the tree.

The ARM method of using just a device number is so much easier ...

Robert
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