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

David Miller
2009-05-28T00:02:44Z

From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:58:24 -0500

> Because it's better to have a little platform specific code than a lot
> of it?

Judging by some of the questions I see popping up over and over again,
I suspect that many people resisting OF device trees lack much of an
understanding of what they provide and can do.

Questions like "How do we determine attribute X of a given device" has
an obvious answer if you understand device node properties and that
you can encode arbitrary things into them to provide arbitrary bits of
information on a per-device-instance basis.