Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

David Miller
2009-05-28T00:15:45Z

From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 02:07:07 +0200

> Until now, oftree has created more problems than it has solved for us.
> The idea works fine for well-known things like memory maps and
> interrupts.

Here you give a specific example about the positives.

> It works badly for corner cases, and embedded land is full
> of it. The effort to get the oftree stuff right is often more than a
> magnitude of order higher than the effort for the actual functionality.
> That should be an alarm sign that something is wrong.

And here you speak about the negatives purely in generalities that
cannot be discussed concretely.

And, sadly, I think this is on purpose.