Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better?

From: [email-masked] (Thierry Reding)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:38:34 +0200

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:30:09PM -0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:05:58PM -0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >
> > That's not helping. The fact is that is has happened.
> 
> It has happened, yes. But we're describing how things *shall* work going
> forward. Coping with existing mistakes is a slightly separate issue.
> (Albeit only slightly since mistakes *will* continue to happen, but
> hopefully more rarely so our defined processes for coping are based on the
> assumption that it should be rare)

Agreed.

Thierry
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