Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:30:22 +0300 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] arm/dt: Basic tegra devicetree support |
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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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