From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the i2c-embedded tree Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:43:45 +0100 Message-ID: <50069361.1080509@linaro.org> References: <20120717130650.GB27595@sirena.org.uk> <500568D9.10805@linaro.org> <20120717133550.GC4477@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <50057058.2060002@linaro.org> <20120717142222.GE4477@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <50057C1A.80606@linaro.org> <20120717152001.GF4477@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20120718053341.GA4009@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> <20120718095937.GB22739@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <50069006.8050301@linaro.org> <20120718103311.GG22739@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120718103311.GG22739@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Brown Cc: Shawn Guo , Stephen Rothwell , Linus Walleij , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, Wolfram Sang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Deepak Saxena , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Alessandro Rubini , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 18/07/12 11:33, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:29:26AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: >> On 18/07/12 10:59, Mark Brown wrote: > >>> It's not the using device tree bit that creates concern for me here= , >>> it's the fact that the board and silicon aren't being separated. > >> What's the difference? > >>> +- db8500.dtsi // silicon >>> \=09 >>> +-- snowball.dts // board > > I have glanced at some of this stuff in the past, thanks. Now think = how > that's working for people when they put the configuration for the > silicon in the same DT node as the configuration for the board... Granted, ideally the configuration and silicon description should be=20 separated. I don't know that is the case for us yet however. That is=20 something I'll enforce when we have a new dts file, which will be comin= g=20 very soon. --=20 Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead M: +44 77 88 633 515 Linaro.org =E2=94=82 Open source software for ARM SoCs =46ollow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog