From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hurley Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] of: DT quirks infrastructure Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:23:47 -0500 Message-ID: <54E73563.5070404@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1424271576-1952-1-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <1424271576-1952-3-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <54E54586.5070602@gmail.com> <23825C6A-7FF1-4D06-8802-F6964F71B97C@konsulko.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <23825C6A-7FF1-4D06-8802-F6964F71B97C@konsulko.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Pantelis Antoniou , frowand.list@gmail.com Cc: Grant Likely , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Tony Lindgren , Koen Kooi , Nicolas Ferre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ludovic Desroches , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Matt Porter , Guenter Roeck List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 02/19/2015 09:41 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > Hi Frank, > >> On Feb 19, 2015, at 04:08 , Frank Rowand wrote: >> >> On 2/18/2015 6:59 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >>> Implement a method of applying DT quirks early in the boot sequence. >>> >>> A DT quirk is a subtree of the boot DT that can be applied to >>> a target in the base DT resulting in a modification of the live >>> tree. The format of the quirk nodes is that of a device tree overlay. >> >> The use of the word "quirk" is a different mental model for me than what >> this patch series appears to be addressing. I would suggest totally >> removing the word "quirk" from this proposal to avoid confusing the >> mental models of future generations of kernel folks. >> > > Naming things is hard to do. Suggestions? variant