Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources?

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:23:08PM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 13:21, Tom Rini wrote:

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Yes, as I said, I'm not totally sure we're at the stable point right
now, but I think that we are.  I'll add that maybe we need to think
about API changes and DTS format versions.  To quote from my post..

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X bugs) or a change that requires a dts version bump.

Now it sounds like the IRQ thing was an "Oops, we should have changed
the dts version" and bailed, noting what is wrong with the dts.

This confuses me.  There hasn't been a change in the DTS
format at all.  I've even updated the 8641HPCN DTS file
across the IRQ updates and all is fine.  Same (DTS) format
both before and after the IRQ changes.

What have I missed here?

Matthew said:

The sandpoint (as far as I know) does not have a stable DTS. So in this
case including the DTS in the kernel would reduce confusion. The same
could be said for other boards where the DTS needed to be changed for
the IRQ rework. The old DTS will no longer boot the new kernels. I'm not
sure how much longer we will run into this problem though.

Now, if we've had to change the contents of the DTS because of a kernel
change, I'd say the DTS format changed as when I say format I mean not
only layout and naming, but what the contents are supposed to contain.

And, so it's clear, I don't know if we're at the very stable format
(names/layout/content means...), but when we are at that point, what
Matthew noted should, IMHO, be a graceful (ie explained in the panic()
or something) death.

And, so it's clear, I think (and hope!) we all agree on that last part,
once we hit stability.

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Tom Rini