Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] PCI fixes for the MPC8641 Rev 2.0 silicon and Rev 1.02hardware

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:59:28 -0500

Scott Wood wrote:

> We also don't want people using a perfectly good device tree on a newer 
> revision of the board that just fixes things and doesn't make any 
> device-tree-relevant changes,

Well, either one device tree is okay, or we need two.  If we do need two, then it would be 
bad to load the wrong one on a particular board and have only 90% functionality.  If he 
have the ability to prevent customers from getting confused, then we should do that.  I 
wish this was standard behavior for all device trees.  I've frequently loaded the wrong 
device tree and wondered why nothing worked.

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale