[PATCH] [POWERPC] mpc5200: Switch mpc5200 dts files to dts-v1 format
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun Apr 20 01:55:58 EST 2008
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Robert Schwebel
<r.schwebel at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:10:04AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Update dts files to current format
>
> Is it somehow possible that this device tree stuff is *not* changed over
> and over again and break everything out there? When people have not even
> agreed on basic things like decimal vs. hex numbers, the whole idea
> should be developed out-of-tree, then stabilize and *then* be submitted
> to the Linux mainline.
>
> Is it also really necessary to change like "gpt" vs. "timer" and "pic"
> vs. "interrupt-controller" all the time? If you compare the last
> mainline kernels, each one got a fundamental change in the naming, each
> time breaking anyone who doesn't have his stuff in the mainline yet.
>
> Sorry, but this is simply annoying, and the whole "the only thing we
> have to do is to define it once and be done then" is crap.
Changing to dts-v1 does *not* break old stuff. It is just a source
format change.
Neither does the RFC patch for removing the fsl,mpc5200b- compatible strings.
I have no intention of breaking older device trees.
g.
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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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