Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757602Ab1CRX0A (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:26:00 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:33641 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752488Ab1CRXZy (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:25:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:25:53 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: andy.green@linaro.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Greg KH , Grant Likely , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, Nicolas Pitre , Linux USB list , lkml Subject: Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets Message-ID: <20110318232553.GA11422@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <20110311165642.GA9996@kroah.com> <201103181600.09877.arnd@arndb.de> <4D839BCD.6030202@linaro.org> <201103182106.13888.arnd@arndb.de> <4D83CF8C.3020605@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D83CF8C.3020605@linaro.org> X-Cookie: You should go home. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1211 Lines: 25 On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:33:00PM +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Well: Greg was also reduced to explaining that device renaming in > userland was decided "a long time ago". It's not argumentation, it is > an appeal to an alleged tradition. The story with device renaming is fairly simple - nobody could agree on what the ideal names should be and different userlands ended up wanting different things so rather than try to keep everyone happy the kernel picked the simplest policy possible and let userland override it to its heart's content. > You think that striving away to create this Device Tree description of a > specific board and maintaining it in a bootloader is LESS work somehow > that registering platform devices in an array in the board definition > file? I think not. It's more the fact that it can be distributed separately to the kernel which reduces the pressure to mainline the basic board description stuff for ongoing maintinance. -- 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/