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

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Date:	Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:30:22 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...sta.com>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
CC:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...sta.com>,
	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

Hello.

On 24-02-2011 0:36, 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.

    Well, I think that depends on the patch. If you have say 9 revisions with 
significant changes (that's what I actually had) and the revision history far 
exceeds the original patch description, then this will just become too ugly I 
think...

WBR, Sergei
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