Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] OF: Introduce DT overlay support.

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri Nov 08 2013 - 14:12:18 EST


On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 05:06:09PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Introduce DT overlay support.
> Using this functionality it is possible to dynamically overlay a part of
> the kernel's tree with another tree that's been dynamically loaded.
> It is also possible to remove node and properties.
>
> Note that the I2C client devices are 'special', as in they're not platform
> devices. They need to be registered with an I2C specific method.
>
> In general I2C is just no good platform device citizen and needs
> special casing.
>
> PCI is another special case where PCI device insertion and removal
> is implemented in the PCI subsystem.
>
> Bug fixes & PCI support by Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Pantelis,

another nitpick:

.git/rebase-apply/patch:195: trailing whitespace.
end up filling in the fields of the of_overlay_info array.
warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.

Guenter
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