On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:52:14AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> The code managing DRCs[0] has quite a few things that are more
> complicated than they need to be.  In particular the object
> representing a DRC has a bunch of method pointers, despite the fact
> that there are currently no subclasses, and even if there were the
> method implementations would be unlikely to differ.
> 
> This appears to be a misguided attempt to "abstract" or hide things in
> a way which is bureaucraticl, rather than meaningful.  We may have an
> object model, but we don't have to adopt Java's kingdom-of-nouns
> nonsense[1].
> 
> This series makes a start on simplifying things.  There's still plenty
> more, but you have to start somewhere.
> 
> [0] "Dynamic Reconfiguration Connectors" a firmware abstraction used
>     in hotplug operations
> [1]
>     https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

I've had enough acks that I've merged this series (with minor
corrections) into ppc-for-2.10.

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