From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68587DE3AA for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:17:35 +1000 (EST) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c48so1083970wra.1 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:17:31 -0500 From: "Timur Tabi" Sender: timur.tabi@gmail.com To: "Jon Loeliger" , devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] DTC: Remove support for the legacy DTS source file format. In-Reply-To: <20080815002936.GA9877@yookeroo.seuss> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20080815002936.GA9877@yookeroo.seuss> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:29 PM, David Gibson 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. I agree, why are we removing backwards compatibility? The dts-v1 format isn't that old, so I'm sure there are plenty of device trees out there, especially on our BSPs, that haven't been updated yet. How about just printing a warning and saying that the device tree should be updated with the conversion tool? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale