From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/4] dtc: Plugin and fixup support Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:11:31 +1100 Message-ID: <20161129021131.GD13307@umbus.fritz.box> References: <1480077131-14526-1-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <1480077131-14526-4-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <20161128041228.GJ30927@umbus.fritz.box> <4672e164-aae0-6306-fe70-146a1f930cf7@raspberrypi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gE7i1rD7pdK0Ng3j" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4672e164-aae0-6306-fe70-146a1f930cf7-FnsA7b+Nu9XbIbC87yuRow@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Phil Elwell Cc: Pantelis Antoniou , Jon Loeliger , Grant Likely , Frank Rowand , Rob Herring , Jan Luebbe , Sascha Hauer , Simon Glass , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Petazzoni , Boris Brezillon , Antoine Tenart , Stephen Boyd , Devicetree Compiler , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org --gE7i1rD7pdK0Ng3j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:24:20PM +0000, Phil Elwell wrote: > On 28/11/2016 12:10, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > For plugins we need the __symbols__ node to support stacked overlays, i= =2Ee. > > overlays referring label that were introduced by a previous overlay. > Although it is arguably useful to be able to refer to symbols created by > one overlay from within another, do we really want all symbols to be > global? Isn't there a call for a new syntax or usage pattern to indicate > either that a symbol should be local to the overlay or, my preferred > option, global? So, this is back to a design question about the overlay format. As noted in the initial discussions about possible "connector" formats, I think we will want some sort of local symbols. But the current overlay format with all global symbols is out there and we need to support it. --=20 David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson --gE7i1rD7pdK0Ng3j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYPOPTAAoJEGw4ysog2bOSga0P/i2VLRUAAtE1cHe2MVYL+leC b6YLygd9cqaCRnz1v//7eCsl7VwT0KKdI99y0TCzYrMU8nYBHFEYSBF7lSSDhR46 cZ3NsIRcuRi9e+V7CBCyHUHNJLJTUnyNev+DX/8EQjb+BWPh6g44pTF/0tJaodpr X9vy0hFlof4bE5KyUtz6nX9ucluUX57HSl67bB8qIyKPoC0uzu3wIPXrYwnf3DfK 5OvXsho7YQd629tXWe2lT9yJ06kpMoAu7P2idjZ4vTNcmvtCLutZ+PaU4QM9M6ZX eVaeAgMoeeHBNl/WAOgbaYTW/YTBg3CO4t/L+2ARioolExAqQzxzf94GPEEAuMro u6OqOIOtRI+b16NSkOPmHldpz9DxOqlQm7xqpocBtz1EMEXNTZJNvFeLQP2GhqOU stJPlgUkZgNXlF72HsRjeQvb8nLeK5vGx8JaNL4w+je1br1xrAAfdFDxu+xXDbnM +gI2YW9N/nsf/3WZsOOiHVLRcUvmw36xeBfecP7Jqig2/Mr1qxYO3ZQSDdUGHo4j 1xAqZC5OZF3OQsuYzQeHtw2ZXtiqq60cvyib5DJbUX3Q2kadE7nLlthddoNGjO7j B3OwsCjQGD6zw5hDuk8EiL7wo74JMNsgeMiVblIvADhzDMQpT37pX4HUQfZKVnN3 3d6/zZyw6CtQVtyRApxp =o++n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gE7i1rD7pdK0Ng3j-- -- 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