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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 2/8] OF: Introduce DT overlay support.
On 05/14/2014 06:03 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Grant Likely
> <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
>>> +config OF_OVERLAY
>>> + bool "OF overlay support"
>>> + depends on OF
>>> + select OF_DYNAMIC
>>> + select OF_DEVICE
>>> + select OF_RESOLVE
>>> + help
>>> + OpenFirmware overlay support. Allows you to modify on runtime the
>>> + live tree using overlays.
>>
>> Should not be a user-visable option. Drivers using it should select it
>
> Why not? It's up to the (final) user to use it, or not.
>
>> or otherwise cause it to be enabled.
>
> Why should this be driver-specific? Shouldn't this just work with all drivers?
>

It does once enabled.

I think what Grant refers to is that there has to be a driver which implements
the actual overlay insertion and removal (ie calls the new API functions),
and that the Kconfig option for this driver should select OF_OVERLAY
instead of depending on it.

Guenter



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