From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090527.171525.204909140.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090527234801.GP6805@pengutronix.de> <4A1DD3A0.3010501@freescale.com> <20090528000707.GR6805@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090528000707.GR6805-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@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: r.schwebel-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org Cc: devicetree-discuss-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, timur-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org, scottwood-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org, yuan-bo.ye-3WKxDLwmzFNWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-xIg/pKzrS19vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org, rmk-lFZ/pmaqli7XmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org From: Robert Schwebel Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 02:07:07 +0200 > Until now, oftree has created more problems than it has solved for us. > The idea works fine for well-known things like memory maps and > interrupts. Here you give a specific example about the positives. > It works badly for corner cases, and embedded land is full > of it. The effort to get the oftree stuff right is often more than a > magnitude of order higher than the effort for the actual functionality. > That should be an alarm sign that something is wrong. And here you speak about the negatives purely in generalities that cannot be discussed concretely. And, sadly, I think this is on purpose.