linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

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Message-Id: <20090527.171525.204909140.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 17:15:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	r.schwebel@...gutronix.de
Cc:	scottwood@...escale.com, grant.likely@...retlab.ca,
	devicetree-discuss@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, yuan-bo.ye@...orola.com,
	timur@...escale.com, rmk@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.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.
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