[Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better?

On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:19 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:

We treated DT the same way we had treated platform data before, which
has inevitable lead to the current mess, which is only slightly better
than what we used to have. 

Side question, in your point of view, how is that better ?

current DT tools are not able to validate a file wrt its schema, so for
now we just moved platdata to DTS files and lost compiler type checking
in between.

I respectfully understand people fighting for *stable* DT because I see
the benefits behind this, even if IMO they absolutely do not outweigh
the pain.

But I fail to see any benefits of "forever unstable" DT, if you have to
tie the kernel tree with a DTB file, the description could have been
left in C code.

-- 
Maxime