Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:23:47 -0500 | From | Peter Hurley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] of: DT quirks infrastructure |
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On 02/19/2015 09:41 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > Hi Frank, > >> On Feb 19, 2015, at 04:08 , Frank Rowand <frowand.list@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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