Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752661Ab3G0R6h (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jul 2013 13:58:37 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:33797 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752334Ab3G0R6f (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jul 2013 13:58:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:57:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Richard Cochran cc: Mark Brown , Jason Gunthorpe , Mark Rutland , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Russell King - ARM Linux , Pawel Moll , Stephen Warren , Domenico Andreoli , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Dave P Martin , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] In-Reply-To: <20130727173748.GA4813@netboy> Message-ID: References: <20130725175702.GC22291@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <51F168FC.9070906@wwwdotorg.org> <20130725182920.GA24955@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20130725184834.GA8296@netboy> <20130725213753.GC17616@obsidianresearch.com> <20130726045433.GB4100@netboy> <20130726171524.GB28895@obsidianresearch.com> <20130727084825.GA4707@netboy> <20130727104018.GC9858@sirena.org.uk> <20130727173748.GA4813@netboy> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1256 Lines: 28 On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:40:18AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:48:26AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: >> >>> [ I disagree about the "more thought" part. The current discussion, >>> coming years too late after the introduction of DT to ARM Linux, is >>> contrary evidence enough. ] >> >> We did have exactly the same discussion when the DT transition was >> started - this isn't something that people only just realised might be >> an issue. There was a deliberate decision to focus on getting the >> technology deployed to the point where it could be used as a straight >> replacement for board files and accept that sometimes the results won't >> be perfect and that we may need to rework as a result. > > Can you tell a bit more about this decision? When was it made? Who > made it? How was it made public? I remember seeing some of the discussion on linux-kernel at the time. I believe there was also a LWN article. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/