Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754584AbbBTNX5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:23:57 -0500 Received: from mail-qc0-f171.google.com ([209.85.216.171]:40704 "EHLO mail-qc0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754541AbbBTNXz (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:23:55 -0500 Message-ID: <54E73563.5070404@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:23:47 -0500 From: Peter Hurley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pantelis Antoniou , frowand.list@gmail.com CC: Grant Likely , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Tony Lindgren , Koen Kooi , Nicolas Ferre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ludovic Desroches , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Matt Porter , Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] of: DT quirks infrastructure References: <1424271576-1952-1-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <1424271576-1952-3-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <54E54586.5070602@gmail.com> <23825C6A-7FF1-4D06-8802-F6964F71B97C@konsulko.com> In-Reply-To: <23825C6A-7FF1-4D06-8802-F6964F71B97C@konsulko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 27 On 02/19/2015 09:41 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > Hi Frank, > >> On Feb 19, 2015, at 04:08 , Frank Rowand wrote: >> >> On 2/18/2015 6:59 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >>> Implement a method of applying DT quirks early in the boot sequence. >>> >>> A DT quirk is a subtree of the boot DT that can be applied to >>> a target in the base DT resulting in a modification of the live >>> tree. The format of the quirk nodes is that of a device tree overlay. >> >> The use of the word "quirk" is a different mental model for me than what >> this patch series appears to be addressing. I would suggest totally >> removing the word "quirk" from this proposal to avoid confusing the >> mental models of future generations of kernel folks. >> > > Naming things is hard to do. Suggestions? variant -- 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/