linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] arm/dt: Basic tegra devicetree support

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Message-ID: <20110223213601.GA5404@angua.secretlab.ca>
Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:36:01 -0700
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...sta.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] arm/dt: Basic tegra devicetree support

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:13:36AM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 23-02-2011 5:22, Grant Likely wrote:
> 
> >This patch adds adds very basic support for booting tegra with a
> >device tree.  It simply allows the existing machine_descs to match
> >against the tegra compatible values so that the kernel can boot.
> >Kernel parameters and the initrd pointer is read out of the tree
> >instead of atags.
> 
> >This is not complete device tree support.  This change will be
> >reverted when a new machine_desc is added that can populate the
> >device registrations directly from data in the tree instead of using
> >hard coded data.  That change will be made in a future patch.
> 
> >v2: Fixed cut-and-paste error in commit text
> 
>    Shouldn't this sentence follow the --- tearline?

Nope!  It is actually quite useful for the version information to show
up in the commit text.  That way you know *exactly* which version got
merged.  dwmw2 pointed that out to me a few months back.

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