From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Holler Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] dt: dependencies (for deterministic driver initialization order based on the DT) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: <53738580.7000902@ahsoftware.de> References: <1399913280-6915-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <20140514141914.446F7C4153D@trevor.secretlab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140514141914.446F7C4153D@trevor.secretlab.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Grant Likely , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jon Loeliger , Russell King , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Rob Herring , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Am 14.05.2014 16:19, schrieb Grant Likely: > Rather than a dtb schema change, for the most common properties (irqs, > clocks, gpios), we could extract dependencies at boot time. I don't like > the idea of adding a separate depends-on property because it is very > easy to get it out of sync with the actual binding data (dtc is not the > only tool that manipulates .dtbs. Firmware will fiddle with it too). Then that stuff has to fiddle correct. Sorry, but trying to solve all problems right from the beginning just leads to endless talks with no end and nothing will happen at all because nobody aggrees how to start. Regards, Alexander Holler