From: Jon Loeliger Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] DTC: Remove support for the legacy DTS source file format. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:44:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080815002936.GA9877@yookeroo.seuss> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppd-linuxppc64-dev=m.gmane.org@ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppd-linuxppc64-dev=m.gmane.org@ozlabs.org To: Timur Tabi Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:29 PM, David Gibson > 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. > I agree, why are we removing backwards compatibility? The dts-v1 > format isn't that old, so I'm sure there are plenty of device trees > out there, especially on our BSPs, that haven't been updated yet. They can run the conversion tool and be fine. > How about just printing a warning and saying that the device tree > should be updated with the conversion tool? How about all the in-tree DTS files are already V1? jdl