From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9 V3] Add documentation for the new DTS language. Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:11:38 +1100 Message-ID: <20100302011138.GF23435@yookeroo> References: <20080930145537.GJ18313@secretlab.ca> <20081001034656.GF30810@yookeroo.seuss> <20100222013004.GM29038@yookeroo> <9696D7A991D0824DBA8DFAC74A9C5FA305B2021A@az33exm25.fsl.freescale.net> <4288fc0b-79a4-42fd-9e77-573dbad79210@SG2EHSMHS004.ehs.local> <4B8C2C4C.8070901@freescale.com> <4d16ecf4-27b2-4c73-a3be-5b2a8ff95820@VA3EHSMHS010.ehs.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: Grant Likely Cc: Wood Scott-B07421 , devicetree-discuss-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, Yoder Stuart-B08248 , Scott Wood , Jeremy Kerr , John Williams List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:25:04PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer > wrote: > > From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org] > >> If sequential operations within a tree are supported, I'm not sure > > that there's > >> any remaining need for separate top-level trees -- you could express > > the same > >> thing as top-level property/node redefinitions. > > > > I agree, *IF* sequential operations are supported. > > But then you have a sequential programming language, not a structured > > data > > description. =A0I think this is a bad idea. > = > Indeed. We've got lots of sequential programming languages. I don't > want us to create for ourselves a new (and poorly implemented) > language. I agree that we don't want to turn this into a procedural programming language. On the other hand, there is plenty of precedent for declarative languages where order of declarations remains important for deciding which takes precedence. -- = 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