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

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:47:45 -0500

Scott Wood wrote:
> Timur Tabi wrote:
>> Just being able to delete a given node/property would be enough. 
> 
> I'd rather have an additive model than a subtractive one.  And it would 
> not be enough, as you would not be able to have two different versions 
> of a property with the same name.

The model would be additive, but the DTB would be subtractive.  After all, the nodes have 
to *exist* in the DTB that's given to U-Boot.  After U-Boot scans the device tree and 
evaluates the conditions, it has to remove the nodes that fail.

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale