Subject: Re: [PATCH] add restart function for mpc52xx

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:27:14 +0100

>> I'm not saying the system is perfect but this issue is more related to
>> recent
>> bindings that the of thing as a whole. That's more the problem with of
>> is that
>> when you need to define bindings for something that has none, you may 
>> not
>> anticipate everything ....
>
> No, you can never do that.

It is perfectly possible to create a binding for a single
device without making any omissions/errors.

You can do a corrrect implementation, too.

Doing this for a whole platform is not more difficult,
just more works (and the law of big numbers kicks in,
you're likely to make some mistake).

> Lets hope there will never be incompatible
> changes in the device tree so that we have to use this device tree for 
> this
> kernel version and another one for other kernel versions.

That wouldn't ever be needed if your "binding" isn't
hopelessly lacking.

Segher