linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

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Date:	Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:22:12 +0100
From:	Stefan Reinauer <stepan@...esystems.de>
To:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, devel@...top.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

* Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org> [070102 12:37]:
> Are you really suggesting that using a kernel copy of the
> device tree is the correct thing to do, and the only correct
> thing to do -- with the sole argument that "that's what the
> current ports do"?

There might also be a speed advantage if any drivers or user space
programs operate heavily on the device tree on those systems with _lots_
of devices.. 

Stefan 

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