[PATCH 2/4] of: DT quirks infrastructure

Peter Hurley peter at hurleysoftware.com
Fri Feb 20 05:23:47 PST 2015


On 02/19/2015 09:41 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
>> On Feb 19, 2015, at 04:08 , Frank Rowand <frowand.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/18/2015 6:59 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>>> Implement a method of applying DT quirks early in the boot sequence.
>>>
>>> A DT quirk is a subtree of the boot DT that can be applied to
>>> a target in the base DT resulting in a modification of the live
>>> tree. The format of the quirk nodes is that of a device tree overlay.
>>
>> The use of the word "quirk" is a different mental model for me than what
>> this patch series appears to be addressing.  I would suggest totally
>> removing the word "quirk" from this proposal to avoid confusing the
>> mental models of future generations of kernel folks.
>>
> 
> Naming things is hard to do. Suggestions?

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