[PATCH] ARM: abstract atags parsing

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Thu Sep 23 21:27:03 EDT 2010


On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Grant Likely wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:18:02PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >> This code movement will make it cleaner and easier to introduce support
> >> for device tree which is basically an alternative to atags. No functional
> >> changes are introduced by this patch.
> >
> > I don't see any point to this churn.
> 
> I can carry it in test-devicetree branch until you become okay with it.

That is probably the best course of action.  I thought this was a nice 
cleanup that could stand on its own, but if RMK doesn't want it without 
a bigger reason (e.g. full DT implementation) then it is best if you 
carry it in your repository.


Nicolas



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