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

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Date:	Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:49:46 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	wmb@...mworks.com, devel@...top.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jg@...top.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:45:31 +1100

> In addition, I haven't given on the idea one day of actually merging the
> powerpc and sparc implementation of a lot of that stuff. Mostly the
> device-tree accessors proper, the of_device/of_platform bits etc... into
> something like drivers/of1394 maybe.
> 
> Thus if i386 is going to have a device-tree, please use the same
> interfaces.

Yes a large amount of the code is identical.

In fact we've been finding bugs in each other's stuff along
the way, so the sooner we consolidate the sooner we stop
having to fix every bug twice :)
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