Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86: Add device tree support

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 14:49 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> 
> >(*) That brings a separate topic we shall discuss: A consistent way for
> >versionning the device-tree would be really useful.
> This isn't a problem unless you move nodes or deprecate them, right? Or
> do you think about another reason to versionning the device-tree?.

Move nodes, deprecate them, yes, but also maybe fix bugs/typos etc... 

For most of these, of course, fixup code can figure things out without a
version. The version has a couple of (minor) advantages, such as being
something easier to get into a bug report rather than the whole tree,
for distro who may want to manage a "pool" of these, or maybe a
"generic" way to provide dtb "overrides" ...

Ben.


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