> > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 13:10 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > >> 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. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
