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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] DTC: Remove support for the legacy DTS source file
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 06:02:43PM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> Now that all in-kernel-tree DTS files are properly /dts-v1/,
> remove direct support for the older, un-numbered DTS
> source file format.

Um.. why?  I just don't see a compelling reason to remove this
backwards compatibility.  It costs us very little to keep it around
indefinitely.

> Convert existing tests to /dts-v1/ and remove support
> for the conversion tests themselves.
> 
> For now, though, the conversion tool still exists.

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