Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun Jul 28 00:47:25 EDT 2013


On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:38:15 +0100, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 03:27:02PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > Remember the stated assertion when DT was first added to the kernel: the
> > DT descriptions _will_ become a separately maintained project which is
> > independent of the kernel.  They will _not_ be kernel version specific.
> 
> I'm looking forward to this.
> 
> Question for the DT guys: what are the plans here? Are we going to get
> rid of the .dts files inside the kernel tree?

Short answer: yes

Slightly longer answer: we're working out the plan now. There's lots of
discussion going on right now and we'll be talking about it face-to-face
in Edinburgh in October.

g.




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