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

From: David Miller
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 19:52:32 EST


From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 01:48:01 +0200

> My impression is that oftree only works in a perfect world. But we
> don't have one, so the fundamental design decision is broken.

It is imperfect, that's why it all determined by software we
control and thus we can fix. _THAT_ is the whole point.

Bringing up SMSC over and over again is just a scarecrow. So
one driver went insanely bad and if an ifdef platform specific
hacks nightmare, big deal.

That has no bearing on whether OF device trees constructed by
bootloader software or onboard firmware is a good idea or not.
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