From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9 V3] Add documentation for the new DTS language. Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:22:42 -0500 Message-ID: <20081002152242.GB22258@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> References: <1222460748-20127-4-git-send-email-jdl@jdl.com> <1222460748-20127-5-git-send-email-jdl@jdl.com> <1222460748-20127-6-git-send-email-jdl@jdl.com> <1222460748-20127-7-git-send-email-jdl@jdl.com> <1222460748-20127-8-git-send-email-jdl@jdl.com> <1222460748-20127-9-git-send-email-jdl@jdl.com> <20080930145537.GJ18313@secretlab.ca> <20081001034656.GF30810@yookeroo.seuss> <48E396A3.809@freescale.com> <20081002011800.GI25598@yookeroo.seuss> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081002011800.GI25598-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@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: David Gibson Cc: devicetree-discuss-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:18:00AM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > I vote against anything similar to the C preprocessor. > > Why? It's not nearly as powerful as the semantic approach, and it is syntactically clumsy (I do *not* want to have to put a backslash at the end of every line within a macro, for example). -Scott