real pedantic whining: "devicetree" isn't really a single word

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:12:33PM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> Oh, please bear with us germans, indians, italians and whoever we are
> with our limited pidgin-english knowledge.
> 
> No, to turn it the other way around: it's great that a native-english
> speaker with knowledge and taste of the language goes over the
> documentation.
> 
> And at least it's now called "device tree", and no longer just "of"
> (from open firmware) :-)

Yeah, naming functions of_* is one thing, but writing of in text
looks just ugly and confusing. Writing OF is only slightly better.
Speaking of "device tree" is surely better, but unfortunately this is such
a generic term. What else do we have?

- Flat Device Tree (FDT), describes the binary format
- Device Tree Blob (DTB), same as FDT
- Device Tree Source (DTS)

There's just no good name for this mechanism.

Sascha

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