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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>,
	"linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org list" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: DTC/dts modifications
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 14:33:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146512012.24239.28.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5CA113BC-1614-4551-87E5-6926E14C2225@kernel.crashing.org>

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 11:00, Kumar Gala wrote:
> All,
> 
> What evilness would it be to change the use of '#' in the .dts format  
> to some other character like '$' or '%'.

Uh, use of '#' for what?  Current comment style is
either C or C++, ie, /* ... */ or //.

>   The problem is the use of  
> '#' prevents use from using cpp which would make some aspects of  
> building up .dts for boards far more useful.

I think to get CPP to be usable, it will need to handle
the # emitted line-location markers, "# <line> <file> <level>".

> We can easily provide a one line script to convert people's .dts to  
> the new format.

I don't think there is a conversion necessary yet.
Did I miss something here?

Thanks,
jdl

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-01 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-29 16:00 DTC/dts modifications Kumar Gala
2006-05-01 19:33 ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
2006-05-01 19:39   ` Kumar Gala
2006-05-01 19:45     ` Jon Loeliger
2006-05-01 19:52       ` Kumar Gala
2006-05-01 20:07         ` Kim Phillips
2006-05-01 20:28           ` Kumar Gala
2006-05-01 21:26             ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-01 22:00             ` Gabriel Paubert
2006-05-01 22:59             ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-01 23:34         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-02  0:17           ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-01 22:14     ` Paul Mackerras

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