[Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better?

[David Woodhouse]

>
> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 13:10 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
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>> Note that you are not describing a normal "DT scenario" here. You are
>> describing a case in which we screwed up
>
> AKA "real world"

No. Absolutely not. That was a screwup, and it needs to be *rare*. The
excuses you present for it are crappy and uunacceptable.

>> So yes, after the public flogging has happened, and we're trying to
>> work out how best to cope with the screwup, we don't necessarily have
>> any perfect choices. The perfect choice was to do it properly in the
>> first place.
>
> or avoid shooting ourselves in the foot in the first place, and keep
> these unmodifiable stuff in kernel :)

No. That doesn't scale. It doesn't work. We can cope with special-cases
for the rare screw-up, but that's a *long* way from always special-casing
*everything* as we used to.

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dwmw2