From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>,
Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Cc: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 19/21] drivers/of: Support adding sub-tree
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 09:35:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1431560124.20218.91.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430774063.7979.139.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 07:14 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> So the "trivial" way to do it (and the way we have implemented the FW
> side so far) is to have the FW simply "flatten" the subtree below the
> slot and pass it to Linux, with the intent of expanding it back below
> the slot node.
>
> This is what Gavin proposed patches do.
>
> The overlay mechanism adds all sorts of features that we don't seen to
> need and would make the above more complex.
Guys, I never got a final answer from you on this. Are we ok with adding
the way to just expand a subtree or are you insistent we need to use the
overlap mechanism ?
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-13 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1430460188-31343-1-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <1430460188-31343-20-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-01 12:54 ` [PATCH v4 19/21] drivers/of: Support adding sub-tree Rob Herring
2015-05-01 15:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-01 18:46 ` Rob Herring
2015-05-01 22:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-01 23:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-02 2:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-04 1:30 ` Gavin Shan
2015-05-04 4:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-04 0:23 ` Gavin Shan
[not found] ` <1430521038.7979.70.camel-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-04 16:41 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2015-05-04 21:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-13 23:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
[not found] ` <1431560124.20218.91.camel-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-14 0:18 ` Rob Herring
[not found] ` <CAL_JsqKqTa5eg3eOqx3bkeNdO_920WwDiRbQaxwWLEWpCypFmA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-14 0:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 6:23 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2015-05-14 6:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 7:04 ` Pantelis Antoniou
[not found] ` <3988EABE-3DE9-4E1C-9778-22E35138E359-wVdstyuyKrO8r51toPun2/C9HSW9iNxf@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-14 7:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 7:19 ` Pantelis Antoniou
[not found] ` <75F026CA-5AC1-4106-B2F0-AB0D006DEF5A-wVdstyuyKrO8r51toPun2/C9HSW9iNxf@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-14 7:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 7:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <1431588358.4160.42.camel-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-14 7:34 ` Pantelis Antoniou
[not found] ` <D7FC0542-DD1A-428F-8E75-81620C6D83DC-wVdstyuyKrO8r51toPun2/C9HSW9iNxf@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-14 7:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 11:02 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2015-05-14 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <1431564871.4160.8.camel-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-07 7:54 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <20150607075422.6ECE9C40A12-WNowdnHR2B42iJbIjFUEsiwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-08 20:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <1433797073.4526.163.camel-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-08 21:34 ` Grant Likely
2015-06-10 6:55 ` Gavin Shan
2015-05-03 23:28 ` Gavin Shan
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