linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]

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Message-ID: <20130730172718.GA2509@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:27:19 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	"jonsmirl@...il.com" <jonsmirl@...il.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
	<ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	Pawel Moll <Pawel.Moll@....com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"rob.herring@...xeda.com" <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>,
	Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have
 people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:30:45AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 07/29/2013 08:15 PM, jonsmirl@...il.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:44 PM, David Gibson
> > <david@...son.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> ...
> >> I also think we should consider the option of having a simple and
> >> straightforward schema language which handles, say, 80% of cases with
> >> a fall back to C for the 20% of curly cases.  That might actually be
> >> simpler to work with in practice than a schema language which can
> >> express absolutely anything, at the cost of being awkward for simple
> >> cases or difficult to get your head around.
> > 
> > Would C++ work? You can use operating overloading and templates to
> > change the syntax into something that doesn't even resemble C any
> > more.
> 
> From my perspective, that's precisely why C++ should /not/ be used.

Amen.

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