From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86: Add device tree support Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:28:48 +1100 Message-ID: <1290983328.32570.184.camel@pasglop> References: <1290706801-7323-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <1290706801-7323-3-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <1290807736.32570.143.camel@pasglop> <20101128134907.GA30784@www.tglx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101128134907.GA30784-Hfxr4Dq0UpYb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org> 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: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: sodaville-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org, devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, x86-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 14:49 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > >(*) That brings a separate topic we shall discuss: A consistent way for > >versionning the device-tree would be really useful. > This isn't a problem unless you move nodes or deprecate them, right? Or > do you think about another reason to versionning the device-tree?. Move nodes, deprecate them, yes, but also maybe fix bugs/typos etc... For most of these, of course, fixup code can figure things out without a version. The version has a couple of (minor) advantages, such as being something easier to get into a bug report rather than the whole tree, for distro who may want to manage a "pool" of these, or maybe a "generic" way to provide dtb "overrides" ... Ben.