Even if everyone can't make it, how about a BoF session at ELC 2012? I haven't had any time to contribute recently, but am tremendously interested in moving this forward.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jon Loeliger > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:38 AM > To: David Gibson > Cc: Devicetree Discuss > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 REPOST] dtc: Add support for named integer > constants > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:54:30PM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote: > > > John, David, > > > > > > What can we do to reach consensus on expanding dtc to handle named > > > constants, or in general any future direction to extend the syntax > with > > > expressions etc.? > > > > Hrm, so, I'm not at all keen to add a named constant syntax without > at > > least having an outline of what a future macro/function syntax would > > look like. > > Which is where I thought it was left earlier...? :-) > And it's not just what the macro/function syntax will look like, > but also how these will play into a more generalized expression > handling mechanism. Defining something one-off now that doesn't > fit well into a long term plan is less than ideal. > > Yes, I know that is tantamount to requiring the whole, larger > picture be solved first. But Dave is right -- at least an outline > of the direction. Seriously, the lexical problems can form some > of the nastiest gotchas if we're not careful from the onset. > > > The latter is almost certain to permit the former as a subcase, and > > I'd really rather not end up with two different syntaxes for > > constants. > > Exactly. > > > Unfortunately, much as I'd like to get all these extended features > > into dtc, > > Agreed.... > > > > Will either of you be attending Linaro Connect or ELC 2012 in > February > > > by any chance? We could get together and talk this through in > person if > > > you are... > > > > Not for me, I'm afraid. > > Only if they are in Austin. :-) Which is to say "Sorry, no." > > jdl > _______________________________________________ > devicetree-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
