Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] arm/dt: Basic tegra devicetree support

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

On 24-02-2011 0:36, Grant Likely wrote:

> > > This patch adds adds very basic support for booting tegra with a
> > > device tree.  It simply allows the existing machine_descs to match
> > > against the tegra compatible values so that the kernel can boot.
> > > Kernel parameters and the initrd pointer is read out of the tree
> > > instead of atags.

> > > This is not complete device tree support.  This change will be
> > > reverted when a new machine_desc is added that can populate the
> > > device registrations directly from data in the tree instead of using
> > > hard coded data.  That change will be made in a future patch.

> > > v2: Fixed cut-and-paste error in commit text

> >     Shouldn't this sentence follow the --- tearline?

> Nope!  It is actually quite useful for the version information to show
> up in the commit text.  That way you know *exactly* which version got
> merged.  dwmw2 pointed that out to me a few months back.

   Well, I think that depends on the patch. If you have say 9 revisions with 
significant changes (that's what I actually had) and the revision history far 
exceeds the original patch description, then this will just become too ugly I 
think...

WBR, Sergei
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