From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm: dts: Add gta04a5 model Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 01:02:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20140801080246.GG29045@atomide.com> References: <1406577213-9642-1-git-send-email-marek@goldelico.com> <1406577213-9642-4-git-send-email-marek@goldelico.com> <1FA8171E-1B7A-4684-887E-11593BB9C29E@goldelico.com> <20140729124120.GS29045@atomide.com> <589F7CA3-F245-4299-8E39-36A7FA9F3CBD@goldelico.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" , Michael Trimarchi , Marek Belisko , Pawel Moll , Kumar Gala , Mark Rutland , Benoit Cousson , "linux-omap-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , linux-arm-kernel , "ijc+devicetree-KcIKpvwj1kUDXYZnReoRVg@public.gmane.org" , Rob Herring , Russell King - ARM Linux , LKML , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org * Javier Martinez Canillas [140729 07:14]: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller > wrote: > > Hi, > >> So what's the conclusion? Are changes needed to this patch > >> series or not? > > > > I advocate that no changes are needed. > > > > I agree with Dr. H. Nikolaus on this regard. A DeviceTree should be a > description of the hardware and if two hardware platforms differs, > then we need two different DTS. > > Lately I'm seeing some attempts to abuse u-boot's fdt command, u-boot > should only modify the strictly necessary like the /chosen branch. > Allowing u-boot to mangle the FDT before passing to the kernel just to > avoid some DT duplication doesn't sound like a good idea IMHO. OK no more comments, so applied all into omap-for-v3.17/dt. As there's a good chance the merge window will open on Monday, no guarantees the gta04 related changes will make it. But I'll send a pull request a bit later on today for them anyways. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html