On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:59:59PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote: > On Wednesday 31 of July 2013 12:37:37 Maxime Bizon wrote: > > > > Board files are C code anyone has the skill to edit/understand/refactor. > > Moving to DT and keep them in tree tightly coupled with the kernel > > version just adds another layer of indirection for *no purpose*.
+1 That is exactly what I tried to say. > > Linus started the whole thing some years ago by refusing to pull ARM > > tree [1]. Reread his post, what he wants is clearly b). > > > > Going a) does not solve any problem. You are just moving churn to > > somewhere else. We had board files churn, then defconfigs churn, DTS > > files (and associated drivers) will be next. And at this rate, we are headed for another Linus ultimatum, sooner or later. > > DT is self inflicted pain. It has to be for the greater good. > > It has several benefits over board files that I mentioned above, possible > without fully separating them from kernel tree. Every time a criticism is voiced about DT, the DT people stick their fingers in their ears and say, "NAH, NAH, NAH, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" WRT to DT-as-platform-device, we would rather stick with the C code, please. Just pushing the configuration tables into an external form does not simplify the problem. In fact, it creates new problems by inviting the possibility of a bootloader/DT/kernel mismatch. Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/