From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:12:09 +1100 From: David Gibson To: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: Merge dtc Message-ID: <20071204221209.GB2521@localhost.localdomain> References: <20071016050217.GA9052@localhost.localdomain> <1196733544.13978.201.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20071204092611.79e08953@zod.rchland.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Cc: linuxppc-dev , Jon Loeliger , Paul Mackerras , David Woodhouse , Paul@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:04:53AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:25:57 -0600 > > Jon Loeliger wrote: > > > >> So, like, the other day David Woodhouse mumbled: > >>> > >>> I think this is a bad idea -- it's hardly a difficult for those > >>> people > >>> who _do_ need dts to obtain it separately. > >>> > >>> We shouldn't be merging _more_ stuff in. > >> > >> Thanks for chiming in here, David W. As far as I can tell > >> so far, the only two people who have voiced an opinion on > >> this issue are Dave G, submitting patches, and me disagreeing > >> with the approach. :-) > >> > >> Anyone else? > > > > I don't see an overwhelmingly great reason to merge it. It might help > > test people who do automated rebuilds, etc and aren't used to dealing > > with powerpc and it's requirements. Outside of that, I see it as > > dual-maintenance. > > > > But I'm not doing the maintenance, and it doesn't effect me too much. > > I only ask that a decision is made and executed on soon so we can move > > on. > > I'm also in disagreement of duplicating dtc in the kernel. > > However, if we are going to do this we should make the path expansion > for labels work before we do it. Since we're going to have to update the in-kernel copy reasonably frequently anyway, I don't see that there's much point in waiting for particular features to be implemented. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson