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