From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9 V3] Remove support for the legacy DTS source file format. Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:26:18 +1000 Message-ID: <20081001012618.GD30810@yookeroo.seuss> References: <1222460748-20127-1-git-send-email-jdl@jdl.com> <1222460748-20127-2-git-send-email-jdl@jdl.com> <20080930055716.GA18695@yookeroo.seuss> <48E2541B.1000801@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48E2541B.1000801-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org To: Scott Wood Cc: devicetree-discuss-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:30:19AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > David Gibson wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:25:40PM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: >>> Now that all in-kernel-tree DTS files are properly /dts-v1/, >>> remove direct support for the older, un-numbered DTS >>> source file format. >>> >>> Convert existing tests to /dts-v1/ and remove support >>> for the conversion tests themselves. >>> >>> For now, though, the conversion tool still exists. >> >> Hrm. Again, I don't think we should need to do this. > > Older dtc versions are still around for those that need them... > IIUC, keeping the old syntax around will complicate the code when > adding the new features. I realise that, I'm just not all that convinced it's a good tradeoff at this time. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson