From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: dtc: Remove remaining old-style checks
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:56:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1J4cvx-0007Rm-El@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:54:38 +1100." <20071218035438.GA10348@localhost.localdomain>
So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:
> The remaining old-style tree checking code: check_root(), check_cpus()
> and check_memory() really aren't that useful. They mostly check for
> the presence of particular nodes and properties. That's inherently
> prone to false-positives, because we could be dealing with an
> artificial tree (like many of the testcases) or it could be expected
> that the missing properties are filled in by a bootloader or other
> agent.
>
> If any of these checks really turns out to be useful, we can
> reimplement them later in a better conceived way on top of the new
> checking infrastructure. For now, just get rid of them, removing the
> last vestiges of the old-style checking code (hoorah).
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Applied.
Thanks,
jdl
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2007-12-18 3:54 dtc: Remove remaining old-style checks David Gibson
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