On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:51:11PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Mark Brown > > More seriously the amount of time we seem to have been spending recently > > on changes which end up requiring us to go through essentially every > > driver and add code to them (often several times) doesn't seem like > > we're doing a good job here. > If this is your main concern you should be made aware that there > are people out there planning to supplant the existing DT probe paths > that are now being added to each and every ARM-related driver > with an ACPI probe path as ARM servers come into the picture. That's different as we're adding support for a new external interface which will need per device configuration parsing rather than reorganising things within the kernel; I'd expect it won't supplant DT but rather sit alongside it as it's more a requirement for the server market than for the embedded market.
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