From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org,
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] DTC: Remove support for the legacy DTS source file format.
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:06:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080816050630.GA12072@yookeroo.seuss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KU1Td-0006ub-8O@jdl.com>
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:44:33AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:29 PM, David Gibson
> > <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Because we are going to get rid of the cruft, simplify things,
> and move forward. Really. This was the plan from the onset.
Uh.. removing compatibility for the old format was never part of *my*
plan for the change. Discourage any further use of the v0 format,
yes, remove support for, no.
I just don't see a benefit to this.
--
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_!
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-14 23:02 [PATCH V2] DTC: Remove support for the legacy DTS source file format Jon Loeliger
2008-08-15 0:29 ` David Gibson
2008-08-15 15:17 ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-15 15:44 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-08-16 5:06 ` David Gibson [this message]
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