[PATCH 00/12] of: overlay: clean up device tree overlay code

Rob Herring robh+dt at kernel.org
Wed Oct 4 14:56:46 UTC 2017


On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:53 PM,  <frowand.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand at sony.com>
>
> I have found the device tree overlay code to be difficult to read and
> maintain.  This patch series attempts to improve that situation.
>
> The cleanup includes some changes visible to users of overlays.  The
> only in kernel user of overlays is fixed up for those changes.  The
> in kernel user is:
>
>    drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave_compat.c

At what point can we remove this? I'm assuming at some point users
will need to update their dtb's for other reasons and this becomes
obsolete.

Rob


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