On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:44:33AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:29 PM, David Gibson
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 06:02:43PM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> > >> Now that all in-kernel-tree DTS files are properly /dts-v1/,
> > >> remove direct support for the older, un-numbered DTS
> > >> source file format.
> > >
> > > Um.. why? I just don't see a compelling reason to remove this
> > > backwards compatibility. It costs us very little to keep it around
> > > indefinitely.
>
> Because we are going to get rid of the cruft, simplify things,
> and move forward. Really. This was the plan from the onset.
Uh.. removing compatibility for the old format was never part of *my*
plan for the change. Discourage any further use of the v0 format,
yes, remove support for, no.
I just don't see a benefit to this.
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