From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel A Fernandes Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 00:16:51 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1357327870-13615-1-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com> <20130105033541.GA2501@netboy.at.omicron.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130105033541.GA2501-TJb37gCd1q6chkuNt9O67llkmcu1nq/N@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: "devicetree-discuss" To: Richard Cochran Cc: Matt Ranostay , Matt Porter , devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, linux-doc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Pantelis Antoniou , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Rob Herring , Rob Clark , Russ Dill , linux-omap-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Koen Kooi List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Richard, On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 09:31:04PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> The following patchset introduces Device Tree overlays, a method >> of dynamically altering the kernel's live Device Tree. > > It would be nice to know the motivation for this code. > > What is the use case? What problem or issue is being addressed? The problem being addressed is discussed in this thread: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1389017 Regards, Joel