From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756245AbaENPCk (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2014 11:02:40 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:50021 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755351AbaENPCh (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2014 11:02:37 -0400 Message-ID: <53738580.7000902@ahsoftware.de> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:02:24 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Likely , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jon Loeliger , Russell King , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Rob Herring , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] dt: dependencies (for deterministic driver initialization order based on the DT) References: <1399913280-6915-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <20140514141914.446F7C4153D@trevor.secretlab.ca> In-Reply-To: <20140514141914.446F7C4153D@trevor.secretlab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 14.05.2014 16:19, schrieb Grant Likely: > Rather than a dtb schema change, for the most common properties (irqs, > clocks, gpios), we could extract dependencies at boot time. I don't like > the idea of adding a separate depends-on property because it is very > easy to get it out of sync with the actual binding data (dtc is not the > only tool that manipulates .dtbs. Firmware will fiddle with it too). Then that stuff has to fiddle correct. Sorry, but trying to solve all problems right from the beginning just leads to endless talks with no end and nothing will happen at all because nobody aggrees how to start. Regards, Alexander Holler From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: holler@ahsoftware.de (Alexander Holler) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:02:24 +0200 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/9] dt: dependencies (for deterministic driver initialization order based on the DT) In-Reply-To: <20140514141914.446F7C4153D@trevor.secretlab.ca> References: <1399913280-6915-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <20140514141914.446F7C4153D@trevor.secretlab.ca> Message-ID: <53738580.7000902@ahsoftware.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Am 14.05.2014 16:19, schrieb Grant Likely: > Rather than a dtb schema change, for the most common properties (irqs, > clocks, gpios), we could extract dependencies at boot time. I don't like > the idea of adding a separate depends-on property because it is very > easy to get it out of sync with the actual binding data (dtc is not the > only tool that manipulates .dtbs. Firmware will fiddle with it too). Then that stuff has to fiddle correct. Sorry, but trying to solve all problems right from the beginning just leads to endless talks with no end and nothing will happen at all because nobody aggrees how to start. Regards, Alexander Holler