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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] OF: Introduce DT overlay support.
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 11:12:09 -0800
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 05:06:09PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Introduce DT overlay support.
> Using this functionality it is possible to dynamically overlay a part of
> the kernel's tree with another tree that's been dynamically loaded.
> It is also possible to remove node and properties.
> 
> Note that the I2C client devices are 'special', as in they're not platform
> devices. They need to be registered with an I2C specific method.
> 
> In general I2C is just no good platform device citizen and needs
> special casing.
> 
> PCI is another special case where PCI device insertion and removal
> is implemented in the PCI subsystem.
> 
> Bug fixes & PCI support by Guenter Roeck <groeck@juniper.net>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>

Hi Pantelis,

another nitpick:

.git/rebase-apply/patch:195: trailing whitespace.
end up filling in the fields of the of_overlay_info array.
warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.

Guenter